Amour, genre et bébés

Making love, making gender, making babies in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s

6-7 September
CRASSH, Alison Richard Building West Rd, Cambridge

Registration is now open. Please visit
http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/2080/

By the end of the twentieth century, a combination of profound social changes and major techno-scientific innovations had reorganized 'the sexual field' into three separate systems. The early twentieth century distinction between sexual pleasure and reproduction was supplemented by one between biological 'sex' and social 'gender', in which the figures of 'the transsexual' and 'transgender' were central, with the category of 'gender' eventually peeling off to have an entirely different historical destiny.

While the phrase 'Sexual Revolution' once evoked changes in sexual mores and contraceptive practices of the 1960s and after, this 'revolution' may have been part of a larger reconfiguration of the pleasure-, gender- and reproductive-systems - the last of which became an autonomous medical industry assisting reproduction by the end of the century. This conference will allow a comparison of the political and ethical debates over medical and cultural innovations in 'sex', 'gender' and 'reproduction' over the

period 1950-1970.

Friday 6 September
9.00 - 9.15	Registration
9.15 - 9.30	Welcome and Introduction
9.30 - 11.00	SESSION 1: MAKING LOVE Dagmar Herzog (City University of New York): The Trouble with "Sex": Radicalism, Couples Therapy, and Psychoanalysis in 1960s-1970s West Germany
11.00 - 11.30	Coffee break
11.30 - 13.00	Gert Hekma (University of Amsterdam): How New Ideals of Equality Impacted on the Sex and Love Life of Queer and Straight from the 1950s on
13.00 - 14.00	Lunch
14.00 - 15.30	SESSION 2: MAKING GENDER Richard Green (Imperial College London): How Gender Changed
15.30 - 16.00	Coffee break
16.00 - 17.30	Ilana Löwy (Centre de Recherche Medicine CNRS): From "Infantilism" to "Inborn Criminal Tendencies": The History of Sex Chromosomes Aneuploidies
17.30 - 18.15	Concluding Remarks
18.15 - 19.15	Drinks Reception

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Saturday 7 September
9.30 - 11.00	SESSION 3: MAKING BABIES Naomi Pfeffer (University College London): Making Babies (and Money) out of Human Waste
11.00 - 11.30	Coffee break
11.30- 13.00	Lisa Downing (University of Birmingham): Loving Life: From Fromm's Biophilia to Money's Normophilia
13.00 - 14.00	Lunch
14.00 - 15.30	SESSION 4: MAKING SENSE Joanna Bourke (Birkbeck University of London):Roshambo; Or What I Learnt About Historical Modes of "Making"
15.30 - 16.00	Tea
16.00 - 17.00	Round Table
17.00 - 17.15	Concluding remarks
17.15	Close

Supported by Generation to Reproduction and the Centre for Research in the
Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities.