Past Event! Note: this event has already taken place.
FEMINIST SEX SEX WARS: Sexual Representation as Threat and Empowerment
February 27, 2017 at 9:00 AM to 6:30 PM
| Location: | Second floor conference rooms Richcraft Hall |
| Audience: | Carleton Community, Current Students, Faculty |
| Key Contact: | Ummni Khan |
| Contact Email: | ummni.khan@carleton.ca |
| Contact Phone: | 6135202600 Ext.1872 |
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This full-day symposium engages with historical and current controversies relating to sexual representation. Experts in the feminist pornography debates of the 80s and 90s will provide historical, cultural and legal context, and consider how those debates inform contemporary struggles over issues like ‘sexting’, ‘revenge porn’ and ‘rape culture.’ Blending critical analysis with creative expression, the symposium also features artist-scholars who will offer performances and insight on the role of erotica as empowerment, pleasure and resistance. The day will conclude with a wine and cheese reception, video-viewing and conversation with members of the Kiss & Tell collective, whose sexually explicit photographic exhibition, Drawing the Line, made a key intervention into the Canadian sex wars.
Panelists include Brenda Cossman, Karen Busby, Trish Salah, Lara Karaian, Patrizia Gentille, Lizard Jones and Ummni Khan
(Sponsored by the Joint Chair in Women’s and Gender Studies, the Faculty of Public Affairs & Sexuality Studies)
1991 Kiss &Tell, Drawing the Line, Susan Stewart (Photographer) in collaboration with Persimmon Blackbridge and Lizard Jones