Archived seminar
19 November 2014: Sex and Intimacy Revisited (CISC Seminar Series)
Professor Lynn Jamieson from University of Edinburgh
At 13:00 in 6.345.
Abstract:
It is more than 15 years since I wrote the book Intimacy Personal Relationships in Modern Societies containing the chapter Sex and Intimacy and I’m now working on a new edition. How much have stories of normal sex changed? Do themes of equality in sex, love and intimacy still co-exist with strong re-assertions of traditional and patriarchal versions of how things are and should be? Do radical stories from people shaping and reclaiming their own sexuality still coincide with the persistence of consequential antidotes to their accounts? Has there been a great leap forward in the aspects of sexuality and sexual behaviour that have been researched giving us better insight into the relationship between sexuality and intimacy across the whole life-course and all social groups? Are public stories and private practices in sexual relationships any more clearly indicating a trend towards equality, disclosing intimacy and mutually negotiated do-as-we-enjoy sex than they were 15 years ago? Lynn Jamieson is Professor of Sociology at the University of Edinburgh. Her research interests include families, personal life and social change. She is Associate Editor of the journal Families, Relationships and Societies and co-editor of the Palgrave book series Families and Intimate Life. She is best known for her writing on intimacies, particularly her book 'Intimacy: Personal Relationships in Modern Societies (Cambridge and Malden, MA: Polity Press), a second edition of which will be published in 2015.
This event is open to the general public.