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Seminar
WiSe 21/22: Sex across boundaries. Regulation, Sexotization, Politicization of Sexual Encounters on the Move in the 19th and 20th century
Ulrike Schaper
Comments
One result of global mobility in the context of colonialism, tourism, or labour migration has been the increase of opportunities for international or intercultural sexual encounters. The appeal of these encounters was often, at least for one of the sexual partners, based on sexual fantasies that hinged on the racialization and exoticization of the sexual Other. However, sexual encounters on the move were also embedded in structural (economic) inequalities and governed by administrative regulations, marriage laws, and social norms that often tried to impose segregational policies. In crossing perceived cultural or racial frontiers, intercultural sexual encounters often exposed (implicit) normativities and triggered political discussions about moral, legal, and social boundaries. However, hopes for sexual liberation could also be linked with ‘non-Western’ anti-colonial struggles as well as the racialised notions of a natural sexual liberality of apparently less civilised societies.
In this class, we explore how sexual relations in intercultural contexts served as a reference point for the politicization and regulation of these encounters as well as how they became and were intricated in sexual subjectivities and racialized/exoticised desires.
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16 Class schedule
Regular appointments
Thu, 2021-10-21 12:00 - 14:00
Thu, 2021-10-28 12:00 - 14:00
Thu, 2021-11-04 12:00 - 14:00
Thu, 2021-11-11 12:00 - 14:00
Thu, 2021-11-18 12:00 - 14:00
Thu, 2021-11-25 12:00 - 14:00
Thu, 2021-12-02 12:00 - 14:00
Thu, 2021-12-09 12:00 - 14:00
Thu, 2021-12-16 12:00 - 14:00
Thu, 2022-01-06 12:00 - 14:00
Thu, 2022-01-13 12:00 - 14:00
Thu, 2022-01-20 12:00 - 14:00
Thu, 2022-01-27 12:00 - 14:00
Thu, 2022-02-03 12:00 - 14:00
Thu, 2022-02-10 12:00 - 14:00
Thu, 2022-02-17 12:00 - 14:00