Sexuality and Consumption – 18th Century to 21st Century

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Sexuality and Consumption – 18th Century to 21st Century

Veranstalter
Franz X. Eder / Mario Keller / Johann Kirchknopf / Oliver Kühschelm / Karin Moser / Stefan Ossmann, Institut für Wirtschafts- und Sozialgeschichte, Universität Wien
Veranstaltungsort
Alte Kapelle, Altes AKH/Campus, Hof 1
Ort
Wien
Land
Austria
Vom - Bis
23.11.2018 - 24.11.2018
Website
https://bit.ly/2PsmVFY
Von
Mario Keller

International conference, University of Vienna, November 23/24, 2018.

In western societies today, it goes almost without saying that sex and consumption are closely related. Sexual lifeworlds are highly commodified. On the one hand, there is a plethora of commercial goods and services that shape sexual ideas, desires, and practices. On the other, there are scarcely any products or services that do not lend themselves to sexually charged advertising and mass media communication.

The conference “Sexuality and Consumption” will take a close look at how sex and consumption have interacted since the 18th century. It focuses especially on forms of hybridization. “Sex” and “consumption” are equally suggestive notions that warrant an in-depth discussion about which concepts have been at their core, which meanings have been associated with them and the ways in which they have converged.

The event is open to the public. We kindly ask for advance registration at: mario.keller@univie.ac.at

Programm

-- 23.11.2018 --

9.00 Open Doors
9.15 Welcome Address

9.30-10.30 - Keynote

Pascal Eitler: Consuming sex, producing sex - recent interests and open questions in historical research

11:00-12:20 - Panel 1: Legal and social normalisation of homosexuality

Justin Bengry: “Get a Move On, Mr. Butler”: The Business of Homosexual Legal Reform

Fred Fejes: “Normalizing” Lesbian/Gay Identity Through Consumption: The American Experience in the 1990s.

13:30-15:30 - Panel 2: Sex-work / Sex-markets

Mareen Heying: Sex as consumer good in the context of prostitution. The political stance of German and Italian sex workers in the 1980s and 1990s

Elmar Gracher: Big business at hidden places - The development of small-scale sex businesses in Cologne between the 1960s and 1980s.

Raphael Reichel "The world's capital of sex" - Negotiations, practices and sites of sexuality and consumption in Pattaya, Thailand.

16:00–17:20 - Panel 3: Sexualised consumer goods and material culture

Jessica Borge: The 1963 Which? Contraceptive Report, British Standard 3704 and anti-commercial action against the condom in 1960s Britain.

Matleena Frisk: Male deodorant usage and changing masculinity in the 1960s and early 1970s Finland

-- 24.11.2018 --

10.00-11:00 - Keynote

Christine Haug: Erotic and pornographic reading materials in Europe in the 17th and 18th centuries: distribution and consumption

11:30-13:30 - Panel 4: The medialisation of sexuality

Heike Steinhoff: Licentious Underworlds: The Commodification and Regulation of Sexuality in Antebellum American Popular Culture

Katrin Pilz: Consuming sexual health: Viennese sex education films of the 1920s

Anat Rosenberg: Advertising Sex in Late Victorian Britain

13.30-14.00
Round up discussion

Kontakt

Mario Keller

Institut für Wirtschafts- und Sozialgeschichte, Universität Wien, Universitätsring 1, 1010 Wien

mario.keller@univie.ac.at

https://bit.ly/2PsmVFY