Centre for Intimate and Sexual Citizenship

Members of the Centre work on a range of topics relating to gender, sexuality and intimacy.

Recent projects include:

• Holding Hands: Experiences of Shame, Pride and Protest among LGBTQ Relationship Partners

Journals

•  Lamarche, Veronica, and Laurie James-Hawkins. “It happened to a friend of mine”: The influence of perspective-taking on the acknowledgement of sexual assault following ambiguous sexual encounters.” Journal of Interpersonal Violence, Forthcoming
• RiRonco, Anna., 2020. Local-level prostitution policies and practices and their effects on sex workers. European Journal of Criminology. 
• Walsh, J., 2020. Confusing cases: forrester, stoller, agnes, woman. History of Human Sciences. 33 (3-4), 15-32.
• Hadjimatheou, K. 2019. Citzen-led digital policing and democratic norms: The case of self-styled paedophile hunters. Criminology and Criminal Justice.
• James-Hawkins, Laurie., 2019. “Adolescent Norms and College Experiences: The influence of early social norms about sexuality”. Advances in Life Course Research 39, 61-76.
• Elisabeth Kelan., (2019). The inclusive leader, the smart strategist and the forced altruist: Subject positions for men as gender equality partners. The Journal of the European Academy of Mangement. 17 (3).
• Dalessandro, Cristen, Laurie James-Hawkins, and Christie Sennott. 2019. "Strategic Silence: College Men and Hegemonic Masculinity in Contraceptive Decision-Making.” Gender & Society, on-line before print.
• Laubender, C. 2019. Beyond Repair: Interpretation, Reparation, and Melanie Klein’s Clinical Play-Technique. Studies in Gender and Sexuality. 1 (20), 51-67.
• Laubender, C. 2019. Empty Space: Creativity, Femininity, Reparation, Justice. Free Association. 75.
• Jones, E. 2018. A posthuman- xenofeminist analysis of the discourse of autonomous weapons system and other killing machines. Australian Feminist Law Journal 1, 93 - 118.

 Books

• Isabel Crowhurst (2020). The tenacity of the couple-norm intimate citizenship regimes in a changing Europe. UCL Press.
• Sandya Hewamanne.,(2020). Restiching identities in rural Sri Lanka gender, neoliberalism, and the politics of contentment. University of Pennsylvania Press.
• Flood, R. R., & Payne, J. G. (Eds.). (2018). Transnationalising Reproduction: Third Party Conception in a Globalised World. Routledge.

We have a vibrant intellectual community which we stimulate through regular events, organised throughout the academic year.

Highlights from our events: 

• Dr Laurie James-Hawkins and Dr Roisin Ryan-Flood hosted a one day online symposium exploring a variety of issues of Consent including sexual consent and the ethics of research consent. 14th September 2021
• Participatory Theatre and Productions of Cultures of Equality with and by Sex Workers in Cape Town - Phoebe Kisubi Mbasalaki presented her research on theatre and sex work in South Africa at our October CISC seminar. Phoebe joined the University of Essex as a Lecturer of Sociology the first of November 2021.
• Adolescent Norms and College Experiences - Dr Laurie James-Hawkins, Deputy Director of the Centre for Intimate and Sexual Citizenship, held this seminar on the influence of early social norms about sexuality - 27 January 2021
• Posting a perfect life: Affect, social media and fear of getting it wrong - Professor Rosalind Gill, Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis at City, University of London, share findings from a new research project conducted in Spring and Summer 2020. Professor Gill was lucky enough to have the opportunity to survey and interview a diverse group of more than 200 young people about their lives and experiences. Topics ranged from experiences of ‘lockdown’ to #BlackLivesMatter, from camera culture to body positivity, and offer an extraordinarily rich insight into young people’s lives on and offline. - 11 November 2020
• Living with and against the couple norm - Dr Isabel Crowhurst and Prof Sasha Roseneil presented findings from their new book on the tenacity of the couple norm. - 2 December 2020
• Challenges and opportunities for sex on social media during COVID-19 - Dr. Emily van der Nagel spoke from Australia about her new book and research on sex and social media. - 20 October 2020. 
• In and Out: The importance of messy identities in bisexuality research. Dr Elizabeth Reed presented her research on bisexuality in the contemporary era. - 13 November 2019
• Professor Ken Plummer: Liberation! - Professor Ken Plummer presented a fascinating seminar ‘protests Liberation! Remembering Stonewall and GLF’ to mark the 50th anniversary since the Stonewall protests Liberation! Remembering Stonewall and GLF. - 30 October 2019
• Toxic Digital Intimacies symposium - Dr Roisin Ryan-Flood, Director of (CISC) Centre for Intimate and Sexual Citizenship hosted a one-day symposium exploring 'toxic digital intimacies', or instances of technologically mediated harm. - 19 September 2019
• Difficult Conversations: A Feminist Symposium - A feminist symposium – this important event brought together scholars to discuss the ways in which ‘difficult conversations’ are a productive resource within feminism and help to bring about positive change. 

Sexualities is a leading international journal and an invaluable resource, publishing articles, reviews and scholarly comment on the shifting nature of human sexualities. The journal adopts a broad, interdisciplinary perspective covering the whole of the social sciences, cultural history, cultural anthropology and social geography, as well as feminism, gender studies, cultural studies and lesbian and gay studies.

CISC hosts a compelling series of seminar, webinars and symposia with world renowned global scholars that attract large audiences. Selective events are available as podcasts.