OSC Scientific Seminar 2021-2022

Friday 22th October 2021, 11:30 am / 13 pm (register link)
98 rue de l'Université - Salle Percheron

Breaking down the privilege of desire.
Gender and class inequalities in the socialization processes to sexual desire

Rébecca Lévy-Guillain

PhD Sciences Po - OSC & INED

Why do men desire more than women? And why do some women desire more than others?
In contrast to the dominant disciplinary approaches of neuroscience or sexology, desire is questioned from a sociological point of view and is defined as a social activity and more precisely as a bodily, contextual and relational experience, associated with erotic mental projections organized in the form of scripts, that is to say scenarios symbolically encoded as sexual. Based on biographical interviews conducted with women and men with diverse social profiles, the presentation details the mechanisms that produce gender and class inequalities by tracing the socialization processes that unfold during childhood and teenage years on the one hand, and by characterizing the social groups that are privileged in matters of desire on the other.

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