Distance relationships and sexuality
Wednesday 12 May 2010, 4.15PM
Speaker(s): Dr Mary Holmes, Department of Sociology, Flinders University
Heterosexual relationships can have subversive elements and within those relationships the boundary between what is sexual and what is not may be difficult to draw. This is illustrated by looking at distance relationships. It is argued that such relationships can challenge characterisations of heterosexuality as nasty, boring and normative and help in examining to what extent current sexual scripts might produce individualized and/or ’pure relationships’.
Location: W/222