{"id":2413,"date":"2011-07-29T16:26:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-29T16:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/scitent.com\/2011\/07\/29\/cfp-taking-liberties-sex-pleasure-coercion-1112011-615-172012\/"},"modified":"2011-07-29T16:26:00","modified_gmt":"2011-07-29T16:26:00","slug":"cfp-taking-liberties-sex-pleasure-coercion-1112011-615-172012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/navsa.org\/2011\/07\/29\/cfp-taking-liberties-sex-pleasure-coercion-1112011-615-172012\/","title":{"rendered":"CFP: Taking Liberties: Sex, Pleasure, Coercion (11\/1\/2011; 6\/15-17\/2012)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Call for Papers<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
Taking Liberties: Sex, Pleasure, Coercion (1748-1928)<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
15-17 June 2012, Newcastle University<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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Keynote Speakers<\/b>: <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
Helen Berry (Newcastle University) on Sex, Marriage and the Castrato<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
Joseph Bristow (UCLA) on Oscar Wilde\u2019s Sexual Practices<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
Cora Kaplan (Queen Mary, University of London) on Rape, Representation and Slavery<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
Richard P. Sha (American University) on Romanticism and the Paradoxes of Free Love<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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From the publication of John Cleland\u2019s Fanny Hill<\/i> (1748) to D.H. Lawrence\u2019s Lady Chatterley\u2019s Lover<\/i> (1928), literature has imaginatively exploited the relationship between freedom, coercion and sexual pleasure, constantly pushing at the boundaries of what it is permissible to describe, represent and perform. At the same time, the history of print, film and theatre censorship has been told as a story of progressive unshackling from constraint. In this narrative, these ever-widening freedoms and challenges have been understood as positively beneficial to individuals and to societies. Yet the idea of sexual liberty as an unqualified good has increasingly come under scrutiny, giving way to the realization that freedom from sexual constraint can sometimes mean imprisonment in new and alternate structures of power, frustration and denial. This international, multidisciplinary conference seeks to complicate and enrich our understanding of the relation between sex, pleasure and coercion in a liberal context. It will explore the many ways in which literary and visual texts and performances can be understood to create, reinforce, question and\/or dissolve these structures, as well as interrogate the complicity of publishing and the law in their framing and dismantling. <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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Key conference questions are: <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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