Event Date: 22 – 24 June 2017
Birkbeck, University of London
Birkbeck Main Building
Torrington Square
London WC1E 7HX
The Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities in collaboration with British Comparative Literature Association, Birkbeck Gender and Sexuality (BiGS), the Birkbeck Institute for Social Research, and Mapping Maternal Subjectivities, Identities and Ethics (MaMSIE) presents:
Feminist Emergency – International Conference
Panel 10:
Sexual difference in the new millennium
The idea of sexual difference has long haunted feminist debates about the oppression of women, and been at the centre of Western feminism’s engagement with psychoanalysis. Today some would question the universality of the concept and argue that it has been made redundant by new forms of sexual being and self-definition, while others consider that sexual difference still decisively lays down in the human mind the lines of inequality between women and men. In this panel Juliet Jacques, Catherine Malabou, Juliet Mitchell, and Jacqueline Rose will discuss how to think about sexual difference, conceptually and politically, in the new millennium.
Panellists:
Juliet Jacques (Freelance Writer)
Catherine Malabou (Kingston University and University of California – Irvine)
Juliet Mitchell (University of Cambridge)
Jacqueline Rose (Birkbeck, University of London)
Chair: Amber Jacobs (Birkbeck, University of London)
