PROVISIONAL CONFERENCE PROGRAMME
DAY 1 = Thursday 8 th
March 2012
8.00 – 10.00
9:30 – 10:00
REGISTRATION + Coffee 1
GREETINGS
10.00 – 11.00
Plenary 1 : HG20
Mary BANOTTI, Ireland. “That Was Then, This is Now” How we
Got Here.
Chair: Dr Mel Duffy, DCU
11.00 – 11.30
11.30 – 13.00
Coffee 2
Session A: H137. Sexuality in the Media Chair: Dr Pamela Hussey, DCU
“You Can’t Read This Magazine and Be a Pussy… But Your Pussy Will Be Glad That
You Read This Magazine”: Sexuality in Third-Wave Feminist Periodicals
Dr Holly KENT, University of Illinois, Springfield, U.S.A.
The Exploitation of Sexuality, Fine art and the ‘Defenders of Public Decency’: A Visual
Analysis of Three Risqué Fashion Advertisement Campaigns
Ms Sadashni MOODELY, & Mr Philip RYAN, Dublin City University & DIT, Ireland
From Predators to “Innocent” Victims: Sexuality Projected by Women on TV
Ms Aurérie SICARD, Dublin City University, Ireland
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Session B: H138. Beyond the Binary
Chair: Dr Pat O’Byrne, DCU
“I’m a he-she, that’s different”: Negotiating Queer Legibility in Leslie Feinberg’s Stone
Butch Blues
Ms Renata DALMASO, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil
Nightwood : Literary Recreations of Fragmented Early Childhood Sexual Experiences
Ms Elizabeth PAZOS,
Centro de Investigaciones Psiquiátricas Psicológicas y
Sexológicas de Venezuela, Venezuela
Cixous’s écriture feminine in Written on the Body
Ms Özge YAKUT,
TOBB Economy and Technology University, Turkey
Session C: HG05. Labelling Sexualities Chair: Dr Melissa Corbally, DCU
Application of a Feminist Pedagogy for Teaching and Supervising Sex Therapy
Dr Victoria FOSTER, College of William & Mary, U.S.A.
‘Sexual Addiction’: Medical Labelling or Clinical Entity?
Mr Ben HUGHES, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Women’s Constructions of Heterosexual Casual Sex and the Implications for Sexual
Health
Ms Claire MORAN, University of Queensland, Australia
13.00 – 14.00
Lunch 1
14.00 – 15.30
Session D: H137. Abjection, Ceremony and Sacrifice Chair: Olga Springer, DCU
The Sexuality of Mourning: Hamlet, Sinead and ‘Sacrifice’
Ms Namita CHAKRABARTY, University of East London, United Kingdom
Abjection as a Collective Phenomenon in Winterson’s novels: A Kristevan Reading
Ms Ayda MEHRARA , Islamic Azad University, Iran
“I opened my mouth to speak in the midst of silence”: Performativity of Language in the
Canonization of ‘St. Derek
Ms Nicola MOFFAT, University College Cork, Ireland
Session E: H 138. Constructing Sexualities Chair: Dr Des McGuinness, DCU
Idolising Nimrod: The Construction of Masculinity in Evangelicalism
Dr Gerard CLINTON , Dublin City University, Ireland
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Spirituality, Identity and Sexually Ageing Well Among Yoruba People in Southwest
Nigeria
Mr Ojo AGUNBIADE , Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria
The Psychosocial Construction of Lesbians’ Sense of Self and Sexual Identity in Ireland
Ms Marelise SPIES , Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland
Session F: HG05. China Chair: Dr Sinead Smyth, DCU
An Exploratory Study on Chinese College Student’s LGBT Characteristics, Attitudes and
Influencing Factors: Implication for Sexual Diversity Education
Ms Xinli CHI, University of Hong Kong, China
Body/Cultural Politics: Bisexual Identity in a Hong Kong Novel Dual Body
Prof.Kwok-kan TAM, Open University of Hong Kong, China
The Attitudes of Chinese University Students towards the Feminine Style of Internet
Language
Dr Bing WANG & Dr Qi ZHANG , Sun Yat-sen University, China & Dublin City
University, Ireland
Coffee 3 15.30 – 16.00
16.00 – 17.00
Plenary 2: HG20
Colm O’GORMAN, Executive Director Amnesty International
Ireland Chair: Dr Maura Conway, DCU
DAY 2 = Friday 9 th
March 2012
9.00 – 11.00
HG05 . Workshop A: Sexuality and Immigrant Rights (Denise CHARLTON, Chief
Executive, Immigrant Council of Ireland ) Chair: Dr Noelle Higgins, DCU
H136.
Workshop B: Poetry, Sensuality and Sexuality (Maighread MEDBH) Chair: Jean-
Philippe Imbert, DCU
H139.
Workshop C: Researching Trans People: Research Practices and Ethical Issues (Dr
Zowie DAVY, Lincoln University, United Kingdom ) Chair: Dr Mel Duffy, DCU
11.00 – 11.30
Coffee 4
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11.30 – 13.00
Session G: HG05. Education, Culture and Sexuality Chair: Dr Lorraine Borran, DCU
Coming of Age in Belgium (1945-1968): Adolescence and Sex
Ms Laura DI SPURIO,
Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
Lesbian and Gay Invisibility and the Heteronomative Framing of Identity in English
Language Teaching (ELT) Materials
Dr John GRAY, University of East London, United Kingdom
Models of Love and Sexuality in Sarah Kane’s play
Cleansed
Jovana PAVIĆEVIĆ, University of Kragujevac, Serbia
Session H: H136. Medical Matters Chair: Dr Anne Matthews, DCU
Concealing Pregnancy, Revealing Pregnant Women Embodied Subjectivity
Dr Catherine CONLON, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Confounding Choices: Local Challenges to Neoliberal Reproductive Health Discourses
Dr Philip MARTIN, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Integrating Sexuality Issues into Medical Consultation: the Gynaecologists’ Point of
View
Ms Angélick SCHWEIZER
, Ms Christine BRUCHEZ & Prof. Marie SANTIAGO
DELEFOSSE,
Université de Lausanne, Switzerland
Session I: H139. Beliefs and Sexual Identities Chair: Rita Glover, DCU
Cherríe Moraga: The Sexualised Space of a Chicana Lesbian
Ms Marian LARA-JAEN, Dublin City University, Ireland
Can We Not Deliver Both the Gospel and Children?: An Examination of Gender Identity and Formation Among Modern Christianity
Ms Kristen NIELSEN, Queen's University Belfast, Northern Ireland
“The Devil Slapped on the Genitals”: Religion and Spirituality in Queer South Africans’
Lives
Dr Cheryl STOBIE, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
13.00 – 14.00
Lunch 2
14.00 – 15.30
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Session J: HG06. Consuming Sex Chair: Dr Briege Casey, DCU
The Porn Aesthetics and Designer Snowflakes
Ms Shiquise DAVIS, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, U.S.A.
‘Porn for Women’: Characteristics and Consumption of Female Porn
Ms Verena Chiara KUCKENBERGER, Medical University of Graz/University of Graz,
Austria
Sexualities for Sale: Delineating Female Desire in Sex Shop Space
Ms Rachel WOOD, University of Sussex, United Kingdom
Session K: H136. Identification. Chair: Dr Sinead Smyth, DCU
Finding Your Goddess: An Exploration of Lesbian Self-Identification through the Work of Four Lesbian Poets
Ms Hayley FOX-ROBERT, Ireland
‘Bending Digits’: John Broderick’s Queer Hands
Mr Adrian GOODWIN, University College, Cork, Ireland
The Conceptualisation of a Non-Gender Specific Sexual Self-Schema
Mr Johann Andrew V SAGMIT, Ateneo de Manila University,
Philippines
Session L: H139. Re/constructing the Sexual Self Chair: Mary Kelly, DCU
‘Unintelligible Sexuality’ as a Body without Organs
Ms Annelies KLEINHERENBRINK, Universiteit Utrecht & Radboud Universiteit
Nijmegen, Netherlands
Attachment Styles and Sexual Behaviour among Young Singaporeans
Dr Dariusz Piotr SKOWRONSKI, Ms Wan Yi GOH, Temasek Polytechnic, Singapore &
Dr Katarzyna WASZYNSKA, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland
(Re)constructing / Negotiating a Sexual Self
Dr Jo WOODIWISS, University of Huddersfield, United Kingdom
15.30 – 16.00
Coffee 5
16.00– 17.30
Session M: HG06. Murder, Myth and Femininity Chair: Dr Brigitte Le Juez, DCU
Breaking down the Self: The Song of the Women from Chalco
Mr Javier BALBAS, Casa Lamm, Mexico
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Transforming Tales – Sexual Imagery in Cupid and Psyche (Apuleius) and Serpentin
Vert (Mme d’Aulnoy)
Ms Dearbhla MC GRATH, Dublin City University, Ireland
Body and the Self: The Interplay between Self and Sexuality in Twentieth-century
Chinese Women's Writings
Dr Terry YIP, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong, China
Session N: H136. Sexuality in/and Society Chair: Grainne Healy, DCU
The Gender Recognition Bill 2011: Worthy of Praise or Riddled with Problems?
Dr Elaine DEWHURST, Dublin City University, Ireland
Ananda Devi’s Le Sari Vert : Filth, Flames and Agony
Mr Jean-Philippe IMBERT, Dublin City University, Ireland
Social and Financial Exclusion in Relation to Prostitution in Post-Communist Countries
Mr Adam RECZCUCH, The Wroclaw University of Economics, Poland
Session O: H139. Africa Chair: Mary Kirwan, DCU
Gender-Based Sexual Violence among Nigerian Widows: Implication for HIV
Transmission
Dr Akanle FLORENCE, University of Ado Ekiti, Nigeria
Cultural Representation of Sexuality: Perspective of African Tradition/Advent of
Globalisation
Mr Oludele Adesina MOYOFADE , MDAM, Nigeria
A Critical Discourse Analysis of the Policy versus Practice on the Rights of Women in
Ethiopia
Mr Hailemichael TESFAYE, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia
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DAY 3 = Saturday 20 th March 2012
9.30 – 11.00
Session P: HG10. Body Images Chair: Dr Stella Vlachov, DCU
The Man behind the Digital Image: Self-Documentation and Identity
Mr Kevin CHRISTOPHERSEN & Ms Peg MURPHY, Columbia College Chicago, USA
The Body is for Each Other: Heterosexual Males’ Experiences of their Bodies in the Gym
Mr Barry KESTELL Dublin City University, Ireland
The Role of Irish Secondary Schools in Teenage Obesity: Activism or Sizism
Dr Majella MCSHARRY, Dublin City University, Ireland
Session Q: HG17. Desire and Agency Chair: Dr Clemens Ruthner, TCD
Sexualising the Body as Social Marking in Classical Greece
Ms Alexandra NEAGU, Bucharest University, Romania
Towards Sexual Agency – Freedom and Sexuate Being
Dr Mervi PATOSALMI, University of Helsinki, Finland
The Island as a Chora : Beyond 'Insular' Sexualities
Dr Yulia PUSHKAREVSKAYA NAUGHTON, University College Dublin, Ireland
Session R: HG18. Old Age Chair: Melissa Stobie, DCU
Representation of Older People’s Sexuality in Russian Contemporary Art
Ms Yaroslava EVSEEVA, Moscow City Pedagogical University, Russia
Queer Stories Our Fathers Never Told Us
Ms Emma Jean KELLY & Mr John Eamon KELLY, Auckland University of Technology,
New Zealand
‘Women like That’: Lesbian Selves after Sixty
Ms Jane TRAIES, University of Sussex, United Kingdom
11.00 – 11.30
Coffee 6
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11.30 – 13.00
Session S: HG10. In Search of oneself Chair: Mary Kirwan, DCU,
Women’s Private Sexuality versus Socio-Religious Norms
Dr Fewzia BENYELLES BEDJAOUI & Ms Nassima ZOBIR BOUGUERBA, Sidi Bel
Abbes University, Algeria
Languages of Heterosexual Seduction in Urban Night Context: An Anthropological
Approach
Dr Guadalupe BRAK LAMY, New University of Lisbon, Portugal
Older Lesbian Women’s Memories
Dr Mel DUFFY, Dublin City University, Ireland
Session T: HG17. Ireland Chair: Barra O’Séaghdha, DCU
Yeats and Gonne: The Emotional Defeat
Mr Faisal AL-DOORI, Aberystwyth University, United Kingdom
Women’s Odysseys towards a Fulfilling Gender Identity in Edna O’Brien’s Fiction
Dr Marion KRAUTHAKER-RINGA, National University of Ireland, Galway
George Bernard Shaw: From Misogyny to Philogyny
Biljana VLASKOVIĆ, University of Kragujevac, Serbia
Session U: HG18. Sexuality and Sensitivity Chair: Dr Raphaela Kane, DCU
Parental Anguish and Distress: A Qualitative Study on Parents Raising a Transgender
Youth
Ms Sana GAITONDE, Dr Tigerson YOUNG & Dr Wallace WONG, Diversity Emotional
Wellness Center, Canada
Children’s Expressions of Sexuality and Gender Identity
Dr Caroll BARRON, Dublin City University, Ireland
The Challenges of Sampling for Sensitive/Sexualities Research
Ms Lesley DIBLEY, Bucks New University, United Kingdom
13.00 – 14.00
14.00 – 15.00
Lunch 3
Plenary 3: HG22. Senator Katherine ZAPPONE (
Seanad Éireann
)
& Dr Ann Louise GILLIGAN. A Self-Critical Analysis of a
Freedom Narrative: the Case for Marriage Equality in Ireland
Chair: Jean-Philippe IMBERT, DCU
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15.00 – 15.30
Conference Closure
For any further information, please access our Conference website at: http://www4.dcu.ie/salis/conferencesexualitystudies2012/index.shtml
Looking forward to meeting you, and to a fruitful and friendly conference
Mel Duffy , Lecturer in Sociology and Sexuality Studies
Jean-Philippe Imbert , Lecturer in Comparative Literature and Sexuality Studies
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