Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies will be presenting a talk with Amanda Lock Swarr, Associate Professor from the University of Washington. The talk is titled "Forcing Sex: Violent Contestations Over South African Masculinities" and will be held in 400 Ford Hall at 1:15pm on March 1st, 2013.
"Forcing Sex: Violent Contestations Over South African Masculinities"
Amanda Lock Swarr, Associate Professor of Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies University of Washington.
*Feminist Studies Ph.D. University of Minnesota, 2003
Within the past decade, South Africa has gained worldwide attention for violent masculinities, manifested remarkably through high rates of sexual assault with public sanction, "corrective" rapes of lesbians, intentional HIV infections, sexual violence targeting infants, and debates over intersexuality. Challenges to the composition of male masculinities have been the subject of sensationalist journalism and public discussion and led to stigma, medical maltreatment, and aggressive policing. This presentation will highlight particular moments in the past decade of such controversies, centering on how and why debates about gender codify its meaning.
March 1, 2013
400 Ford Hall, 1:15 p.m.
See the attached flyer for more information.
AmandaSwarrColloquium.pdf
