Conference "Past and Present of Radical Sexual Politics"
Fifth meeting in the series "Socialism and Sexuality"
University of Amsterdam, 3-4 October 2003.
Organized by the Mosse Foundation, Gay and Lesbian Studies and
the Master Club Gender, Sexuality and Culture
With financial support of the Nederlandse Organisatie voor
Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek NWO, Maison Descartes (the French
Cultural Institute), the School for International Training
(SIT/Amsterdam) and the Mosse Foundation.
Introduction
In the past, radical sexual politics have most often been
closely connected to leftist movements: from utopian socialism
and anarchism to marxist feminism. And most movements for sex
reform, homosexual rights or birth control were closely linked
to progressive ideologies. Notwithstanding major changes in
the field of sexuality, many of them engineered by socialist
governments, the seduction of the left for sexual politics has
disappeared. The radical left has become marginalized while
the successes of sex reform and gay and lesbian emancipation
have loosened the links between their demands and particular
political currents. New social movements against global
capitalism have not included sexual issues in their platform.
The change from the old to the 'New Left' did not mean a
breakthrough because the New Left is reluctant to deal with
controversial issues like child sexuality, public expressions
of sexual pleasure, sexual citizenship, new reproductive
technologies or societal heterosexism, or is even reviving old
moralistic discourses for example on prostitution. The
conference will deal with the histories of radical sexual
ideals, their survival and their renewal in contemporary
culture.
Attending the conference
For those who do not give a paper, please let us know if you
want to participate and which days, email: [log in to unmask];
phone: 31 20 6278877 and 5252226
Program
Friday, Oct 3d
Location: CREA building, Muziekzaal, Turfdraagsterspad 17
10.00 Opening
10.20 Rene Scherer (Paris) "Charles Fourier et les
ralliements d'amour" (in French, with translation) or the
sexual utopia of this early socialist.
10.40 Judy Greenway (University of East London): 'Together
we will make a new world': sexual and political utopianism
11.00 Judit Takacs (Budapest): Kertbeny's ambiguous
identities.
11.20 coffee break
11.40 J. Edgar Bauer (Heidelberg): Magnus Hirschfeld's
Doctrine of Sexual Intermediaries and the Transgender Politics
of Identity
12.00 Dan Healey (Swansea): Bolshevik Medicine and the
Sexual Revolution
12.20 Maria Kyriakidou (American College of Thessaloniki):
Female bodies, sexuality and leftist feminism: the 'personal
as political' in inter-war Greece
12.40 David Berry (Loughborough University, UK): Daniel
Guerin's engagement with sexology and the gay movement
13.00 lunch
14.00 Lena Lennerhed (Sodertorn University College,
Sweden): The Pursuit of Pleasure. Sexual Liberalism is Sweden
in the 1960's.
14.20 Saskia Poldervaart (University of Amsterdam, Gender
Studies) The history of the communal movement in the
Netherlands and its sexual politics.
14.40 Lucy Robinson (Sussex): Carnival of the Oppressed:
The Angry Brigade and the Gay Liberation Front
15.00 Stephane Garneri (Montpellier): Republicans and
Democrats (USA) on sexual orientation politics
15.20 tea break
15.40 Daniel Borrillo (Paris): Le pacs, les socialistes
francais et les homosexuels
16.00 Jan Willem Duyvendak (University of Amsterdam):
Comments
16.20 General discussion.
17.00 End
Saturday, October 4th
Location: Oudemanhuispoort, room A 009
10.20 Monika Pisankaneva (Sofia): The Forbidden Fruit:
Sexuality in Communist Bulgaria.
10.40 Jose Fernando Serrano Amaya (Universidad Central,
Bogota and University of Bradford,UK): Body and conflict in
Colombia: reflections on a political practice
11.00 Gert Hekma (University of Amsterdam): The
disappearance of sexual radicalism in The Netherlands
11.20 coffee break
11.40 Jamie Heckert (University of Edinburgh): Towards
Consenting Relations: Anarchism and Sexuality
12.00 Paul Reynolds (Edge Hill College) Marxism and the
Politics of Sexuality: Critical Engagements
12.20 Mark Blasius (City University of New York): The new
sexual movements
12.40 Final discussion
Lunch for those want to discuss the future of the network
"Socialism and Sexuality". Place to be announced.
For the conference papers and summaries please visit the
Socialism & Sexuality website,
http://www.iisg.nl/~womhist/socandsex.html
For more information, please contact Gert Hekma,
Gay and Lesbian Studies
Sociology and Anthropology
University of Amsterdam
Oudezijds Achterburgwal 185
1012 DK Amsterdam
email: [log in to unmask]
phone: 31 20 6278877 and 5252226
Jenneke Quast
International Institute of Social History
Cruquiusweg 31
NL-1019 AT Amsterdam
The Netherlands
Tel +31 20 6685866
Fax +31 20 6654181
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www.iisg.nl/~womhist/
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