- Introduction to GEXcel
- Research Themes and Researchers
- Research Members
- Research Themes
- Theme 1: Gender, Sexuality and Global Change
- Theme 2: Deconstructing the Hegemony of Men and Masculinities
- Theme 3: Distinctions and Authority
- Theme 4-5: Sexual Health, Embodiment and Empowerment
- Theme 6: Power Shifts and New Divisions in Society, Work and University
- Theme 7-8: Teaching Normcritical Sex - Getting Rid of Violence
- Theme 9: Gendered sexualed transnationalisations, deconstructing the dominant: Transforming men, “centres”, knowledge/practice
- Theme 10: Love in Our Time – a Question for Feminism
- Theme 11-12: Gender Paradoxes in Changing Academic and Scientific Organisation(s)
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GEXcel news
New GEXcel Fellows
June 20 | 0 comments
Up-coming conference, October 12th - 14th
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Welcome to the Conference "Power Shifts and New Divisions in Society, Work and Universities"
May 10 | 0 comments
Extended deadline to apply for visiting fellowships GEXcel themes 7 & 8
April 22 | 0 comments
Opening Seminar of Theme 10: Love in Our Time – a Question for Feminism
March 25 | 0 comments
Research Theme 10, Love in Our Time – a Question for Feminism, is opened with a one-day seminar at Örebro University on May 20, 2010.
Junior Fellows selected for Theme 10
March 11 | 0 comments
Two postdoctoral scholars and four doctoral students have now been selected to participate as Visiting Fellows in Theme 10, Love in Our Time – A Question for Feminism.
GEXcel Themes 3, 6, 7, 8 and 9: Invitation to apply for visiting fellowships
March 08 | 0 comments
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(What's this?)Theme 7-8: Teaching Normcritical Sex - Getting Rid of Violence
By Katherine Harrison on 29 Jun | 0 comments
Teamleader:
Theme duration:
Sep 2010 - Sep 2011
Themes 7-8: Teaching Normcritical Sex - Getting Rid of Violence
TRANSdisciplinary, TRANSnational and TRANSformative Feminist Dialogues on Embodiment, Emotions and Ethics
THEME LEADERS
Prof. Nina Lykke, Dept of Gender Studies, Linköping University
Prof. Barbro Wijma, Div. Gender and Medicine, Linköping University
Themes 7-8 build on the collaborative work, carried out within the framework of GEXcel themes 4-5 "Sexual Health, Embodiment and Empowerment. Bridging Epistemological Gaps."
The main aim of themes 4-5 was to analyse bodies, gender/sex and sexualities from critical feminist perspectives, informed by sociocultural as well as medical theories and methodologies, and based on transversal dialogues between different branches of feminist analysis (queer, sexual difference, post colonial feminism etc.) The research carried out under theme 4-5 led to a focus on three sub-themes, sex education, critical sexology and violence, which all were analysed as arenas for both tensions and synergies between sociocultural and medical analytical perspectives.
Themes 7-8 will follow up on this research. It will explore in more detail the struggles and synergies of sociocultural and medical perspectives taking place in the three arenas, sex education, critical sexology and violence. Building on the assumption that new transdisciplinary theories and methodologies are needed in order to grasp the complexities at stake in each arena and in-between them, the research will seek to give transnationally informed answers to questions
such as:
* How to develop normcritical and sex positive sex education, sensitive to intersectional processes of genderization, sexualization, racialisation, ethnicification, dis/ability-construction etc?
* Can normcritical and innovative kinds of sex education contribute to subversion of intimate violence economies, embedded in power differentials based on entangled issues of gender, race, sexuality, nationality, religion, class privilege etc?
* How can sex education worldwide benefit from normcritical approaches to sexological categorizations?
* How to analyse and eliminate violence in intimate relationships and on broader social levels?
Special attention will be given to analysis of transformatory practices, agency and empowerment within the framework of a focus on the role of embodied emotions (pleasure, shame, hate etc). A rethinking of ethical issues will also be given high priority.
Persons involved with this theme:



