Brighton and Sussex Sexualities Network

9.00-9.45

Professor Cara Aitchison— Professor Cara Aitchison—The Spatiality of Leisure, Gender and Sexuality: A Decade of Difference or Discourse?

10.00-11.20

Sex and Entertainment

• Dr. Louise Mansfield—‘SEXERCISE’: Heterosexualiy and Femininity in Jane Fonda’s Fitness Books 1980-1990
• Katy Pilcher –A ‘Sexy Space’ for Women? Women’s Experiences of a Male Strip Show Venue
• Erin Sanders—Visual/Voyeuristic Tourism as Sex Tourism
• Dr. Barry Worthington—Holidays Clubs, and Munches – A Case Study of Embodied Sexual Leisure Space

11.20-11.45

Coffee

11.45-12.30

Professor Phil Hubbard—Opposing Sex as Leisure: The Embattled Spaces of Adult Entertainment

12.30-1.30

Lunch

1.30-2.45

Sex, Tourism and Touring

• David James Prickett—Walking in Berlin: The Search for the Self and the ‘Spatial Turn’ in Der fromme Tanz (1925)
• Dr Isabel Crowhurst—‘Going on a Puttan Tour is the Most Cathartic Experience in a Male’s Life’: Gender and Sexuality on Italian Streets
• Maartje Bulkens—A Delicious Leisure Activity: Spatial Resistance to Heteronormativity in Public Spaces

2.45-3.30

Dr. Jon Binnie and Christian Kleese—Transnational LGBT Activism

3.30-3.45

Tea

3.50-5.10

Sexualising Leisure and Sport Spaces

• Dr. Tiffany Muller Myrdahl—The Cultural Politics of Sport in US Cities
• Duygun Erim—Knowledge from the Gut Embodied Affects of the Sexual Play of Dance
• Dr. Jayne Caudwell— Tenor Madness: Jazz and the Containment of Women Saxophonists
• Dr. Kath Browne , Leela Bakshi and Dr. Jason Lim—We are here to Party?: LGBT Leisurescapes

5.15-6.00

Professor Beverley Skeggs to lead closing discussion