We are delighted to offer A Body, Undone (Crosby, 2016) for review. Expressions of interest are welcome from across the medical humanities. Further information about the themes under study can be found at New York University Press. In the early evening on October 1, 2003, Christina Crosby was three miles into a seventeen mile bicycle Read more…
‘The Impotence Epidemic: Men’s Medicine and Sexual Desire in Contemporary China’ by Everett Yuehong Zhang (Duke University Press, 2016). The Impotence Epidemic: Men’s Medicine and Sexual Desire in Contemporary China is a poignant account of the mutable public attitudes towards sexuality in post-Mao China. Through an intense ethnological study, Everett Read more…
We are pleased to offer for review ‘The Impotence Epidemic: Men’s Medicine and Sexual Desire in Contemporary China’ by Everett Yuehong Zhang (Duke University Press, 2015). Expressions of interest are welcome from across the medical humanities. Since the 1990s China has seen a dramatic increase in the number of men seeking treatment for impotence. Everett Read more…
We are pleased to offer for review ‘The Body and Shame: Phenomenology, Feminism, and the Socially Shaped Body‘ (Rowman & Littlefield, 2015) by the Centre’s very own Dr Luna Dolezal. Expressions of interest are welcome from across the medical humanities. ‘The Body and Shame: Phenomenology, Feminism, and the Socially Shaped Body investigates Read more…
Lancaster University, Conference Centre Opportunities, challenges & tensions: linking the ageing and disability rights agendas Ageing and disability: ’writing in’ gender and sexuality Thursday 25th April 2013 The importance of gender and sexuality amongst older and disabled people is often overlooked by policy-makers and practitioners. This seminar will explore points Read more…
ESRC Seminar Series: Competing knowledges of the young sexual body Friday 2 November 2012, 11:00-16:30 Anglia Ruskin University, East Road campus, Cambridge, Mellish Building, Room 206 Programme includes the following presentations: * Dr Susan Walker will introduce the seminar and outline the complex and often strained relationship between biomedical and sociological Read more…
The Centre for Sex, Gender and Sexualities invites all university staff and students and members of the community to participate in an ‘open forum’ for discussing the future activities of the centre. Wednesday 29th February 2012, 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm, Room 147, Elvet Riverside 1, 83 New Elvet, Durham, Read more…