Please forward this training event to all your colleagues. Many thanks.   Do you have an understanding of asexuality? What is the place of intimacy and amorous or romantic relationships within asexualities? What is your current thinking around sexual desire?   Asexuals are making themselves heard and thus are redefining what we understand by intimacy, … Continue reading »

Studying gender and sexuality psychosocially: Dialogue across perspectives Tuesday 15 May 2012, 10:00-16:40 The Open University, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA Location: Michael Young Building 1,2 & 3 Map and Directions: http://www8.open.ac.uk/about/main/faculties-and-centres/milton-keynes-campus  Event This event brings together people who are studying gender and sexuality from a variety of psychosocial perspectives. There have been a … Continue reading »

National Women’s Studies Association (NWSA) 2012 Call for Papers about Asexuality November 8-11, 2012, Oakland, CA. Papers on any topic at the intersection of women’s and gender studies and asexuality will be considered.

This book presents current research focusing on sexual minorities. It discusses topics that include gay and lesbian parenthood; asexuality; media representations of trebly marginalised minorities; the effect of imaged contact on heterosexual women’s attitudes toward lesbian women; and, the high-school experiences of sexual and gender minority youth and best practices in the development of interventions … Continue reading »

There seems to be three tendencies within the literature: medical/psychological, queer theory / cultural studies / women’s studies, sociological & anthropological. With the latter two having a lot of convergence in outlook if not methods. My own work started in the third category and now sits on the border between the second and third category. … Continue reading »