Abstracts and Biographies (A-Z)
Katherine Angel
Centre for the History of Medicine
University of Warwick
Biological Psychiatry and Postfeminism in Female Sexual Dysfunction
Tara Bates
Gender, Work and Social Inquiry
University of Adelaide
"Who Cares what the DSM says?": Reorienting Questions of Power and Docility Concerning Psychiatrists' attitudes towards the DSM
Carellin Brooks, DPhil
Sessional Faculty, Women's and Gender Studies Program
University of British Columbia
The Medicalization of Breastfeeding
Monica Brown, PhD Student
Department of English
University of British Columbia
Revisiting Metaphors of Women’s Sexuality in Female Sexual Dysfunction
Dr Thomas Bryant
Historical and political Adult Education
Alice Salomon Hochschule Berlin
University of Applied Sciences
Medicalization by Sterilization: Surgical Dealing with Sexual Deviancy in Imperial and Weimar Germany
Jessica Butler, PhD Candidate
Department of History
Boston College
Making Homosexuality Medical: Nazi Notions of Sexual Degeneracy
Alan Cassels, Drug Policy Researcher
University of Victoria
Pharma and the Male “Just Fix it” Mentality: Why Men are and will Likely Continue to be the Main Market for Human Sexual Enhancement Drugs
Meghan Chandler
Visual Studies
UC Irvine
Sickness, Sexuality, Secrets: The Erotic Anatonomies of Hannah Wilke and Annie Sprinkle
Carm De Santis, Adjunct Professor
Department of Sexuality, Marriage,
and Family Studies (SMF),
St. Jerome’s University
University of Waterloo
BJ Rye, Associate Professor
Psychology and Sexuality, Marriage,
and Family Studies Departments
St. Jerome’s University
University of Waterloo
Joint: “I May Look Like What You Want, but it Don’t Feel Good Anymore”: The Impact of Medical Tampering on Women with Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome’s Sexuality
Rachel Hope Cleves
Assistant Professor, Department of History
University of Victoria
Contagion, Masturbation, and Same-Sex Sexuality among Antebellum American Girls
Jillian Deri, PhD Candidate
Department of Sociology
Simon Fraser University
Gender Differences in Re-Imagining Jealousy in Polyamorous Relationships
Marion Doull, Postdoctoral Fellow
Youth Sexual Health Team, School of Population and Public Health
Faculty of Medicine
University of British Columbia
Subject, Object, or Both? Defining the Boundaries of “Girl Power”
Prof. Pat Elliot, Chair
Department of Sociology
Wilfrid Laurier University
Losing the Subject: A critical Reading of Bio-Reductive Theories of Transsexuality
Maral Erol, Lecturing Fellow
Thompson Writing Program
Duke University
Blaming Women, Helping Women: Medicalization of Sexuality in Menopause
Samantha Fashler
Pain Lab
University of British Columbia
The Sexual, Psychological and Body Image Health of Women Undergoing Elective Vulvovaginal Plastic/Cosmetic Procedures
Trevor Floyd
Institute of Professional Psychology,
Manhattan Psychiatric Center
Dhat Syndrome: The Influence of Medicalization and Globalization on the Presentation and Treatment of Sexual Dysfunction in South Asian Men
Jana Funke
University of Exeter
Sexual History Before The History of Sexuality: Constructions of the Past in Havelock Ellis’ Studies In the Psychology of Sex
Lee Gale
Trans-activist
Press for Change |
Jay McNeil
Trans-activist
Coordinator, TransBareAll |
Joint: Testing Real Lif |
Jessi Gan, PhD Candidate
Program in American Culture
University of Michigan
Racial Language in Early Sexual Science
Trish Garner, PhD Student
Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies,
Simon Fraser University
“Manboobs” and the Failure to Achieve Heterosexuality
Alain Giami, PhD
Gender, Sexual and Reproductive Health, Le Kremlin Bicetre, France
English Translation: Transformations in the Medicalization of Sex: HIV Prevention and the Disappearance of the Human Factor
French Translation: Transformations dans la medicalisation de la sexualité: la prévention du VIH et la disparition du facteur humain
Dr Robert Gillett
School of Languages, Linguistics and Film
Queen Mary University of London
Notes from an Initial Laundry: AIDS and the Queer Turn in the Medicalization of Sex
Kristina Gupta, PhD Student
Department of Women's Studies
Emory University
Sex for Health: Representations of Sex as a Health-Promoting Activity
Bridget Gurtler, (PhD Candidate
Department of History
Rutgers University
From “Artificial Impregnation” to “Test-Tube Babies”: Narratives in Nomenclature in the Early History of Artificial Insemination, 1850-1940
Prof. Dr Antje Kampf
Institute for the History, Philosophy and Ethics of Medicine,
Universitytsmedizin der Johannes Gutenberg-Universities
Urogenital borderlands: ductus ejaculatorius and the (un)making of Male Identities
Anita Kurimay, PhD candidate
Department of History
Rutgers University
Rehabilitating Sexual Abnormals: Queers and Hungary’s Soviet Criminology Tribunal
Christine Labuski
Postdoctoral Fellow
Centre for the Study of Women, Gender, & Sexuality
Rice University
Diagnostic Delays: Seeking Relief for Vulvar Distress
Dr Dany Lacombe, Professor and Acting Chair
Dept of Sociology and Anthropology, Simon Fraser University
Medicalization of Sex Offenders in Prison
Tracy Penny Light, PhD
Assistant Professor, Sexuality, Marriage, and Family Studies/History
St. Jerome's University
Being Normal…Surgically: The Medical Discourse on Cosmetic Surgery in the 20th Century
Amanda Lock Swarr
Assistant Professor, Women Studies, University of Washington
Medical Experimentation and the Raced Incongruence of Gender under Apartheid
Olga Marques, PhD Student, ABD
Department of Criminology
University of Ottawa
“Men Are Visual” and Other Porn Fallacies: The Mal(e)practice of Female Sexual Desire
Britta McEwen
Assistant Professor, Creighton University
Professionalizing the Personal: Eugenics and Sex Education in Interwar Vienna
Kathryn Pauly Morgan, PhD
Professor of Philosophy, University of Toronto
Medico-Sexualized Therapeutic Contact: “Therapeutic Erections?” or Acts of Eroto-Terrorism?
Loren A. Olson, MD
DLFAPA
Adonis Makes Me Sick
Eric Plemons, PhD Candidate
Anthropology, UC Berkeley
It Is As It Does: Genital Form and Function in Sex Reassignment surgery
Katherine Poole, PhD Candidate
Political Science, York University
Quantifying Pleasure: Medicine’s Sadean Narrative of Transgender Sexuality
Ana Porroche Escudero
Breast Cancer: A Textbook Case of the Medicalization of Women's Sexuality
Ela Przybylo
Women’s Studies, University of Alberta
Disordering Lack Disorders: Asexuality and the Politics of “Not Doing It”
Judith Raiskin, Associate Professor
Women's and Gender Studies
University of Oregon
Tee Corinne vs. The Laser Vaginal Rejuvenation Clinic:Can Art Trim Cosmetic Genitoplasty?
Sal Renshaw, PhD
Associate Professor & Chair,
Gender Equality & Social Justice/Religions and Cultures
Nipissing University
Screening Sex, Scripting Desire, Constructing Normal
Miriam Reumann
Department of History, University of Rhode Island
“Nothing More than a Normal Boy:”Peer Culture, Normalcy, and Sexual Modernity in the 1920s
Sylvie Rivard, Ph.D. candidate
Interdisciplinary Program in Rural and Northern Health
Laurentian University
After Gynaecological Cancer: Women's Experiences and Identity
Wrenna Robertson
Show Off Books
I'll Show you Mine: A Celebration of the Vulva Diversity
Sara Rodrigues, MA Candidate
The Centre for the Study of Theory and Criticism
University of Western Ontario
The Will to Orgasm: Vaginoplasty, Female Sexual 'Dysfunction' and the Biopolitics of Pleasure
Sarah Rudrum, PhD Student
Centre for Women's and Gender Studies, UBC
Orgasmic Birth and the Regulation of Women's Experiences
Caroline Sanders
Paediatric Urology and Gynaecology, Liverpool
A Narrative Study of Parents’ Experiences of their Child’s Genital Ambiguity:
How does Surgery Act as a Form of Protection?
Erin Sapp, Doctoral Student
Gender and Sexuality Studies, Tulane University
Sanity, Satisfaction, and Sociality: Transitions in Medico-Psychological Views of Masturbation, 1890s to 1920s
Sandra Seekins
Art History Faculty, Capilano University
Weimar Visual Culture and Magnus Hirschfeld’s Images of Sexual Variance
Neslihan Sen, PhD Candidate
Anthropology
University of Illinois
Talking Through Medicine: Vaginismus as a Channel for Public Discourse of Women's Sexuality in Turkey
Toni Serafini
Sexuality, Marriage, and Family Studies Department,
St. Jerome’s University
University of Waterloo
“My Identifier is ‘Big Tits’?!”: Cosmetic Enhancements and Identity Formation in Adolescent Females
Dr. Christabelle Sethna, Professor
Institute of Women's Studies
Faculty of Health Sciences
University of Ottawa
On the Pill: Canadian Feminists’ Views of Oral Contraception, 1960-1980
Krista Sigurdson, PhD candidate
Sociology, University of California, San Francisco (UCSF)
The Medicalization or Sexualization of Breasts in Contemporary Breastfeeding Rights Discourse
Elizabeth Stephens, ARC Research Fellow and Deputy Director
Centre for the History of European Discourses, Queensland
The Emergence of “Normality” as Medical Concept: Notes Towards a Critical Genealogy
Robert Scott Stewart, PhD
Department of Philosophy, Cape Breton University
Constructing Aberrant Behaviour: The DSM and the Classification of Sexual Paraphilias and Disorders
Jemma Tosh, PhD Student
Psychology of Women, British Psychological Society
Coordinator of the Feminist Reading and Research Group
Manchester Metropolitan University
The Medicalisation of Rape: A Discourse Analysis of Online Conversations about “Paraphilic Coercive Disorder”
Shannon Vogels, MA Student
Communications, SFU
Good Girls and Gardasil: The HPV Vaccine and Sexual Health Discourse in Popular Media
Caroline Walters, Ph.D. student
Sexuality and Gender Studies
University of Exeter
The Signification of Self-Inflicted Wounds: The Relationship between the Individual, Masochism and Self-Harm
Eleanor Wilkinson, Doctoral Student
School of Geography, University of Leeds, UK
Compulsory Sexuality: Choice, Anxiety and Constraint
Travis L.C. Wisdom, Independent Researcher
Questioning “Circumcisionism”: Challenging the Medicalization of Male Genital Surgeries
Ruth E. Zielinski, PhD, CNM
University of Michigan Ann Arbor
Private Places—Private Shame: Women’s Genital Body Image and Sexual Health