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SUMMARY:Making love\, making gender\, making babies in the 1950s\, 1960s a
 nd 1970s - Speaker to be confirmed
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DESCRIPTION:By the end of the twentieth century\, a combination of profoun
 d social changes and major techno-scientific innovations had reorganized 
 ‘the sexual field’ into three separate systems. The early twentieth ce
 ntury distinction between sexual pleasure and reproduction was supplemente
 d by one between biological ‘sex’ and social ‘gender’\, in which t
 he figures of ‘the transsexual’ and ‘transgender’ were central\, w
 ith the category of ‘gender’ eventually peeling off to have an entirel
 y different historical destiny. While the phrase ‘Sexual Revolution’ o
 nce evoked changes in sexual mores and contraceptive practices of the 1960
 s and after\, this ‘revolution’ may have been part of a larger reconfi
 guration of the pleasure-\, gender- and reproductive-systems – the last 
 of which became an autonomous medical industry assisting reproduction by t
 he end of the century. This conference will allow a comparison of the poli
 tical and ethical debates over medical and cultural innovations in ‘sex
 ’\, ‘gender’ and ‘reproduction’ over the period 1950-1970. \n\n
LOCATION:CRASSH\, Alison Richard Building\, 7 West Road\, Cambridge
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