Friday Lunch Series
The Friday Lunch Series is hosted every other Friday by the Center for Gender Studies. In this relaxed but engaged setting students and faculty present their work on gender and sexuality related topics. These Friday discussions are designed to be interdisciplinary and wide-ranging. Participants are encouraged to bring their lunch and eat and enjoy while they listen and discuss.
Friday Lunch discussions are held in the first floor conference room of the Center every other Friday from 12:15 PM - 1:30 PM.
The Friday Lunch Series still has openings for presenters this coming academic year. If you have a paper you wish to present, please email Gina Olson at golson@uchicago.edu for available dates.
2009 FALL Presentations
November 13
Phil Redman, Graduate Student, Sociology, University of ChicagoThe Rank Ordering of Sexual Practices
How do people come to view certain sex acts as deeply meaningful, others as less so, and some as barely counting as "sex" at all? Different judgments of what constitutes a "real" sex act may be located in the religious context of one’s life, the heteronormative assumptions of society, and state and social emphasis on the family, among other factors. To expand on these points, Redman will draw on research he conducted with Houston area public and private high school sex education teachers, examining the ways in which such teachers present an ideal sexual encounter, draw clear red lines through prohibited sex acts, and ignore or omit many categories of sex acts entirely.
Lunch will be provided.
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Events Calendar for future Friday Lunch talks.
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