Future Sex:
Gender in Neoliberalism and Beyond
Centre for Cultural Studies Research Seminar
24th April 2013, 11am - 4pm
Confirmed speakers: Ros Gill, Bev Skeggs, Andrew Branch, Julia Dane, Roberta
Garrett, Catherine Harper, Stephen Maddison
Venue: Room EB.2.44, East Building, University of East London, Docklands
Campus
The event is free but registration is required in advance and places are
limited. Please contact either Andrew Branch ([log in to unmask]) or
Stephen Maddison ([log in to unmask]), the seminar conveners, to confirm
your attendance.
Details of how to get to the Docklands Campus are located at:
http://www.uel.ac.uk/campuses/docklands/
What does gender mean in an age defined by post-feminist ideologies, and in
cultures that have been ‘sexualised’? Women may have been gaining economic,
social and cultural entitlements in recent years, but post-Fordist economies
continue to exploit gender inequalities. And whilst a variety of ‘new
femininities’ have promised freedoms and opportunities, they have also
articulated further responsibilities associated with being a woman in the
twenty-first century. Similarly, the increasing visibility of so-called
‘softer’ masculinities and the continuing appeal of the metrosexual man seem
to signal transformations in the idea of what it means to be a man. Yet such
opportunities for softness and flexibility are unevenly available in economic
conditions designed to install an equality of inequality. If men are becoming
softer and women more post-feminist, how are we to understand the position of
queer identities? Is homosexuality ‘disappearing’ in the drive towards
homonormativity? Is there a place for gender dissent in lesbian and gay
cultures, or do challenges to binary constructions of gender and domestic
nuclearity no longer have any meaning in an era of gay marriage?
Future Sex brings together a range of speakers from media, cultural and
literary studies, and sociology to consider the question of gender in
neoliberalism. Topics under discussion will include the nature of the
acceptable phallus, sex advice, competition and modern man, mum’s lit, the
future of the sissy, gender and sex on MTV, and how women’s labour is
performed.
Dr Stephen Maddison SFHEA
Head of Cultural Studies and Creative Industries
Leader in Learning & Teaching
School of Arts and Digital Industries
University of East London
4-6 University Way
London E16 2RD
tel. 020 8223 3000 (switchboard) 020 8223 6240 (direct line)
http://www.uel.ac.uk/adi/staff/stephenmaddison/
http://www.opengender.org.uk/
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