Sandro Guzzi-Heeb, Aline Johner, Chiara Mascitti, Lucas Rappo (Université de Lausanne), Loraine Chappuis (Université de Genève)

Ort: Université de Lausanne
Time: T.b.a.
Bewerbungsschluss: 30.11.2016

In the past two decades the history of sexuality has experienced a significant development alongside a quick increase of perspectives and research methods. Nevertheless, although the cultural approaches have been very successful, we observe some difficulty in renewing the field rooted in the social history perspective.
After Philippe Ariès’s, Jean-Louis Flandrin’s or Michel Foucault’s groundbreaking works historians have often addressed the relationship between sexuality and power. Yet they have most often done so in a general and very abstract manner, proposing – as did Foucault or Laqueur – macro-historical models that ignored class differences or group-specific practices. Consequently, women and men actually having sexual intercourse have tended to disappear completely or to appear merely as subjects of state policies and scientific discourses or as masses reacting to economic and social evolutions. This is particularly true of women and men out from the lower and lower middle classes, about whom sources are most of the time scarce and fragmentary. Read more and source … (Web)