Self, Selves and Sexualities Symposium
Sexuality Conference
Self, Selves and Sexualities
Conference Abstracts
Friday 19th + Saturday 20th March 2010
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Prof. Stef Adriaenssens, HUB - University College Brussels, Belgium
Ethical Consumption? Normative Consciousness by Prostitution Clients
stef.adriaenssens@hubrussel.be
Prof. Samira Aghacy, Lebanese American University, Lebanon
Masculine Identity in the Fiction of Hoda Barakat and Rachid Al-Daif
saghacy@lau.edu.lb
Banu Akcesme, Middle East Technical University, Turkey
Sexuality in Trouble: Fluid Bodies
obanu@metu.edu.tr
Dr Emmanouil Aretoulakis, University of Crete, Greece
Consuming Desires and Sexualities
aretoulakis@phl.uoc.gr
Javier Balbas Diez Barroso, Casa Lamm, Mexico
Phallolatry in Ancient Mexico and Peru
jabadiba@yahoo.com
Carol Barron, Dublin City University, Ireland
Boys like Action Games, Girls Like Animal Games": Sexuality of Self / Selves in the Development and Use of Digital games by children in Middle Childhood
carol.barron@dcu.ie
Dr Fewzia Bedjaoui, Sidi Bel Abbes University, Algeria
Woman Writing: a Mouthpiece to Indian Feminism
Fewzia.bedjaoui@gmail.com
Dr Julie Ann Buenting, Saint Xavier University, U.S.A.
Limiting Selves
Buenting@sxu.edu
Maartje Bulkens, Wageningen University, Netherlands
"A Delicious Leisure Activity": Spatial Resistance to Heteronormativity in Public Spaces
maartje.bulkens@wur.nl
Helen Butcher, University of Chichester, United Kingdom
"Larry the Freedom Fighter is Dead and Larry the Business Man is Alive": Commercial Identity and Discourses of Self and Other in the Contemporary Porn Industry
H.Butcher@chi.ac.uk
Eugenia Cabral & Paulo Pinheiro, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
"Being a woman" in the Brazilian Feminine Press
eugeniacabral@yahoo.com.br paulojr.pinheiro@gmail.com
Dr Mark Casey, Newcastle University, United Kingdom
Ideal Homes? Class, Gender and Sexuality in the Lesbian and Gay Home
M.E.Casey@ncl.ac.uk
Supriti Chakraborty, Mumbai Institute of Technology, India
The Politics of Sexuality amongst Men who have Sex with Men (MSM) Community in Delhi, India
supriti_iit@rediffmail.com
Manase Chiweshe, Women's University in Africa, Zimbabwe
'Eroticism and Sexual Pleasure in an Era of Social Networking': Facebook and the Consumption of Sexuality in Zimbabwe
manasekudzai@gmail.com
Amy Christmas, University of Leeds (York St John), U.K.
Intimacy, Imagination, and the Self: Orlan and the Composite Body
a.christmas@yorksj.ac.uk
Dr Ana Cruz Garcia, N.U.I. Cork & Cork Institute of Technology
Lesbian Bodies and Sexuality in Mexican Writing by Women Writers
ana.cruz@ucc.ie
Dr Hernán Cuevas, Universidad Diego Portales, Chile & Isabel Pérez Zamora, Universidad Academia de Humanismo Cristiano, Chile
Sexual Citizenship
hernan.cuevas@udp.cl ixp181@yahoo.com
Dr Antoinette Curtin, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Alan Moore's Sexual Ladies
ancurtin@tcd.ie
Baboucar Diouf, Université Gaston Berger de Saint-Louis, Senegal
Lifecycle and Sexuality in James Baldwin's Go It tell It on the Mountain and Shimmer Chinodya's Harvest of Thorns
baboucardiouf2g5el@yahoo.fr
Dr Sandra Dudareva, Public Health Agency, Latvia & Dr Anda Karnite, Riga Stradins University, Latvia
Men who Have Sex with Men (MSM): A "Bridge" Group for HIV Transmission in Latvia
sandra.dudareva@gmail.com anda.karnite@rsu.lv
Dr. Mel Duffy, School of Nursing, Dublin City University
The Power to Name and Shame in Irish Health Care
mel.duffy@dcu.ie
Dr Philip Esterhuizen, Hogeschool van Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Self-Disclosure or Not? That is the Question
philip.esterhuizen@hca.nl
James Fedor, Rutgers University, U.S.A.
Sexual Issues Among the Terminally Ill
jpfedor@gmail.com
Dr Miriam Galvin, University of Bradford, United Kingdom
Representations of Sexuality: Men who Interact Sexually with Children
miriam.galvin@gmail.com
Prof. Pumla Dineo Gqola, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa
Unfashionable sexualities: Post-Apartheid Black women, Complexity and the Feminist Imagination
pumla.gqola@wits.ac.za
Rachel Hills, University of New South Wales, Australia
Great Sexpectations: Sex and Symbolic Capital in the Age of Raunch
rachel.hills@student.unsw.edu.au
Dr Michael Hinds, Mater Dei Institute, Ireland
Sappho's Jukebox: from Lesbos to Memphis
Michael.Hinds@materdei.dcu.ie
Clare Hollowell, Lancaster University, United Kingdom
You don't want to be fun in the wrong way": Young Women's Sexuality within the Discourse of Fun
c.a.hollowell@lancaster.ac.uk
Prof. Dave Holmes, University of Ottawa, Canada
Bodyless Sex: Glory Holes and Sexual Assemblages
dholmes@uottawa.ca
Jean-Philippe Imbert, Dublin City University, Ireland
« Péhor » by Remy de Gourmont : Sacrilege and Sacrifice of a Fin-de-Siècle milkmaid
Jean-Philippe.Imbert@dcu.ie
Dr Victor Karandashev, Grand Valley State University, U.S.A.
Love Attitudes across the Whole Lifecycle
karandav@gvsu.edu
Dr Ravinder Kumar, Omar Al-Mukhtar University, Libya
Gender , Sex and Descrimination in The God of Small Things : Theories and Approaches
drraviathwal@gmail.com
Yushuo, Kuo, University of Exeter, United Kingdom
Relationships from Prospectives of ASDs
yk212@exeter.ac.uk
Prof. Rina Lapidus, Bar-Ilan University, Israel
Sex, Man's Self-Esteem and Muder of Woman in Russian Novel of 19th and 20th Century
alrlhs@mail.biu.ac.il
Dr Dina Ligaga, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa
Policing Sexualities: Radio Theatre and the Representation of Sexual Moralities in Romantic and Marital plays in Kenya
dina.ligaga@wits.ac.za
Prof. Xavela Maluleke, Walter Sisulu University, South Africa
The Sexual Health Programme for Puberty Rites for Girls in the Rural Areas of the Limpopo Province, South Africa
tmaluleke@wsu.ac.za
Dearbhla McGrath, Dublin City University, Ireland
Monstrous Sexualities: Peau d'âne - The Forgotten Tale?
dearbhla.mcgrath9@mail.dcu.ie
Niamh McNamara, University College Cork, Ireland
Mythology and Gender in the work of Chicana Writer, Luna Lemus
dearg.dawn@gmail.com
Dr. Nancy Moules and Dr. Andrew Estefan, University of Calgary, Canada
Sexuality in Adolescents Living with Cancer: The Refractive Capacity of the Disease Lens
njmoules@ucalgary.ca aestefan@ucalgary.ca
Darragh O'Donoghue, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Writing of the Body: Penella Lenigan and Other 19th Century Female Diarists
dodonog@tcd.ie
Margaret Louise O'Neill, Murdoch University, Australia
Self, Selves and Highly Sexual Women: A Phenomenological Study of the Sexual Subjectivities and Discursive Environment of Women who are Identified or Identify Themselves as Highly Sexual
margaretoneill3@bigpond.com
Dr Isabel Pérez Zamora, Universidad Academia de Humanismo Cristiano, Chile
De-Sexualising Dangerous Bodies and Regulating the Self
ixp181@yahoo.com
Dr Beth A. Robertson, ABD, Carleton University, Canada
In the Laboratory of the Spirits: Gendered Dichotomies of the Séance Space in the Psychical Research of Dr. T.G. Hamilton, 1918-1935
Bethrobertson33@gmail.com
Nicole Rouhana, CNM, FNP-BC, PhD, Stony Brook University, U.S.A.
Women's Perspectives of Sexual Function after Menopause: A Grounded Theory Study
nicole.rouhana@sunysb.edu
Olivier Roy, University of Montréal, Canada
Secular Homonationalism: Sexuality at the Intersection of Nation and Religion
olivier.roy.6@umontreal.ca
Dr Clemens Ruthner, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
"La Mutzenbacher": Paedophilia as Social Pornography in Fin-de-Siècle Vienna
Prof. Carmel Seibold, Australian Catholic University, Australia
Young Women's Sexual Health
carmel.seibold@acu.edu.au
Riham Sheble, American University in Cairo, Egypt
From Whore to Holy "and Back" A comparative reading of "Lilly, Did You Have to Put On the Light?" a short story by Yūsuf Idrīs and "Lila Says" a novel by Chimo
rihshebl@yahoo.com
Dr Vera Sheridan, Dublin City University, Ireland
Sounds of Silence: Presence and Absence in a Narrative of Forced Migration
vera.sheridan@dcu.ie
Prof. Cheryl Stobie, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
"He uses my body": Lesbian Traditional Healers, Male Ancestors and Transgender in South Africa
stobiec@ukzn.ac.za
Melissa Stobie, Dublin City University, Ireland
Examining the Concept of "Harm" in Sex Consumption
MLStobie@gmail.com
Sara Stokes, N.U.I., Galway, Ireland
Who Regulates Sexuality in Ireland? From the Catholic Church to Popular Media: a Shift in Direction
sarastokes42@gmail.com
Cecilia Strand, Uppsala University, Sweden
The Demonization of Homosexuals in Ugandan Print Media – a tale on Modern Witch Hunt
cecilia.strand@im.uu.se
Prof. Kwok-kan Tam, Open University of Hong Kong, China
Cinematic and Literary Representations of Sexuality and the Male Self in China
kktam@ouhk.edu.hk
Mitali Thakor, Stanford University, U.S.A.
Mobile Bodies: Practicing Cell Phone-Based Transactional Sex in India
mitalit@stanford.edu
Dr Ernesto Vasquez del Aguila, University College Dublin, Ireland
In the U.S. Versatility Reigns: Gay Masculinities and the Transformation of Intimacy among Gay Peruvian Immigrant Men in New York City
ernesto.vasquezdelaguila@ucd.ie
Louise Wilks, University of Liverpool, United Kingdom
"He became me, and I became him": Sexuality, Space and Place in Dom Rotheroe's "My Brother Tom."
louwilks@liv.ac.uk
Paul Willis, Swansea University, United Kingdom
Homophobic Encounters of the Third Kind: Young Queer Workers Witnessing and Refuting Homophobia in Australian Workplaces
P.B.Willis@swansea.ac.uk
Dr Wallace Wong, Ministry of Children and Family Development, Canada
Working with Gender Variant Children using a Multi-System Approach
wallace.wong@gov.bc.ca
Ingrid Young, Newcastle University, United Kingdom
Reimagining Risk: Understanding Encounters in Gay and Bisexual Men's Sexual Health
ingrid.young@ncl.ac.uk