Les sciences du désir : Savoirs et pratiques médicales de la «sexualité féminine» du XIXe siècle à nos jours

SciencesDesirel’Institut des Etudes genre de la Faculté des Sciences de la société a le plaisir de vous inviter à deux conférences publiques:

Mercredi 15 juin 2016 à 16h15 à Uni Mail Salle MR280

Les sciences du désir:
Savoirs et pratiques médicales de la «sexualité féminine» du XIXe siècle à nos jours
Introduction de Delphine Gardey, Historienne et sociologue, professeure d’histoire contemporaine, directrice de l’Institut des Études Genre, Université de Genève

The Biomedicalization of Female Sexual Desire: Sexuo-Pharmaceuticals in the 21st Century (en anglais)

Conférence de Jennifer Fishman, Sociologue, professeure associée, Unité d’Ethique BioMédicale, Université McGill, Montréal, Canada

While approval for sexuopharmaceuticals for male sexual arousal took a straightforward and expedited path to market, the quest to get a prescription drug approved for women has been much more arduous. This presentation will provide an historical perspective of researchers’ attempts to apprehend and biomedicalize female sexuality in the 21stCentury via their development and clinical testing of new drugs to treat ‘new’ sexual dysfunctions. I will begin with a discussion of Pfizer’s failure to get Viagra approved for women and end with the 2015 approval of Addyi, the first drug of its kind to treat women’s “low libido.” I will conclude the talk with a critical analysis of the medical science of sex difference and how women’s bodies and sexualities resist reductionist apprehension.

Brain desires: The neuroscience of sexuality in the 2000s (en anglais)

Conférence d’Isabelle Dussauge, Historienne des sciences et techniques, Departement d’histoire des sciences et des idées, Université d’Uppsala, Suède

Gay brains, hetero brains; male, female and trans brains are all recurrent cultural figures of the human, and not least, of human sexuality, in the 2000s. But how do contemporary neurosciences re-articulate human sexuality as processes of the brain? Deploying which notions of gender, sexual preference, sexual function, and pleasure? In this talk I interrogate the normativities at work in the conceptual and material practices of the newer neurosciences of human sexuality. I also attend to the directions of desire that the neurosciences attribute to sexuality – from the endpoint of sexological models, orgasm, to the satisfaction of brain reward systems serving the purpose of evolution, as often contended in evolutionary psychology and neuroeconomics. Finally, this talk offers a reflection on the stakes of the neuro-framing of sexuality in the context of the contemporary medicalization of sexuality and the cerebralization of happiness.

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Entrée libre.

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The Institute of Gender Studies is pleased to invite you to two public lectures:

Wednesday 15th june 2016 at 16h15 in room MR280 (Uni-Mail)

The science of desire: Medical knowledge and practices of “female sexuality” from the 19th century to the present (in French)
Welcome address by Delphine Gardey, Historian and sociologist, Professor in contemporary history, Head of the Institute of Gender Studies, University of Geneva, Switzerland

The Biomedicalization of Female Sexual Desire: Sexuo-Pharmaceuticals in the 21st Century
Lecture by Jennifer Fishman, Sociologist, Associate Professor, Biomedical Ethics Unit, McGill University Montreal, Canada

While approval for sexuopharmaceuticals for male sexual arousal took a straightforward and expedited path to market, the quest to get a prescription drug approved for women has been much more arduous. This presentation will provide an historical perspective of researchers’ attempts to apprehend and biomedicalize female sexuality in the 21stCentury via their development and clinical testing of new drugs to treat ‘new’ sexual dysfunctions. I will begin with a discussion of Pfizer’s failure to get Viagra approved for women and end with the 2015 approval of Addyi, the first drug of its kind to treat women’s “low libido.” I will conclude the talk with a critical analysis of the medical science of sex difference and how women’s bodies and sexualities resist reductionist apprehension.

Brain desires:
The neuroscience of sexuality in the 2000s
Lecture by Isabelle Dussauge, Historian of science and technology, Department of History of Science and Ideas, Uppsala University, Sweden

Gay brains, hetero brains; male, female and trans brains are all recurrent cultural figures of the human, and not least, of human sexuality, in the 2000s. But how do contemporary neurosciences re-articulate human sexuality as processes of the brain? Deploying which notions of gender, sexual preference, sexual function, and pleasure? In this talk I interrogate the normativities at work in the conceptual and material practices of the newer neurosciences of human sexuality. I also attend to the directions of desire that the neurosciences attribute to sexuality – from the endpoint of sexological models, orgasm, to the satisfaction of brain reward systems serving the purpose of evolution, as often contended in evolutionary psychology and neuroeconomics. Finally, this talk offers a reflection on the stakes of the neuro-framing of sexuality in the context of the contemporary medicalization of sexuality and the cerebralization of happiness.

http://www.unige.ch/etudes-genre/

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Admission is free.

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Isabelle Dussauge conducts research in STS and in the history of medicine. She holds a Ph.D. in the history of science and technology. Among her previous and current research interests are the current neurosciences of gender and sexuality, imaging technologies and visual culture, the early computerization of health care, and the history of ethics and fetal medicine after WWII.

Jennifer R. Fishman is Associate Professor in the Social Studies of Medicine Department and Biomedical Ethics Unit at McGill University. Her empirical research analyzes the unexamined, presumptive, and gendered assumptions, values and ethical frameworks embedded in new biomedical and scientific enterprises. She has studied pharmaceutical drug development (Viagra), anti-aging science and medicine, and new genetic susceptibility and carrier tests. Her recent work has been published in venues including PLoS ONE; Social Science and Medicine; Sociology of Health and Illness; Science, Technology and Human Values; New Genetics and Society, and Trends in Genetics. She is the co-editor of Biomedicalization:Technoscience, Health, and Illness in the U.S. (Duke University Press, 2010).

Delphine Gardey is Full Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Geneva (Switzerland) since 2009 and head of the Institute of Gender Studies, and Master and Ph D. Programs in Gender Studies. Trained as an historian and a sociologist in France (PhD. Université Paris 7. 1995; Habilitation (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales. 2007), she has held positions as Researcher, Associate Professor and Full Professor between 1995 and 2009 in Paris. She is also a former Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies (Berlin) and  former Humboldt Fellow at the Max Planck Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte and the Zentrum für Frauen und Geschlechterforshung at the Technische Universität, Berlin.

She has published in: Les Annales, Histoire, Sciences, Société; Sociologie du Travail; History & Technology; Differences : a Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies ; Le Mouvement Social; Les Cahiers du Genre; Travail, Genre et Sociétés; Clio, Femmes, Genre, Histoire ; Feministische Studien.

Last publications : Le Linge du Palais-Bourbon. Corps, matérialité et genre du politique à l’ère démocratique. Le Bord de l’Eau, 2015 ; Gardey, Delphine,  Kraus, Cynthia, eds. Politics of Coalition. Thinking Collective Action with Judith Butler. Geneva & Zürich: Seismo Verlag. 2016 ; Angeloff Tania et Gardey Delphine (dir). « Corps sous emprises. Biopolitique et sexualité au Nord et au Sud », Travail Genre et Sociétés, n°34, novembre 2015 bm

List of publications and publications on line : https://www.unige.ch/etudes-genre/equipe-1/delphinegardey/publications/