„Sexuality, the Working Classes and Labour Movements"
38th Linz Conference (September 12th–15th 2002)
Schedule
Thursday, September 12, 2002
9:00 am to 10:00 pm: Registration of participants at AK-Bildungsheim
Jägermayrhof, Linz/Upper Austria
2:00 pm to 3:30 pm: Meeting of the Executive Committee and the Advisory
Board
3:45 pm to 6:30 pm: General Assembly of the Representatives
of the Member Institutes of ITH
7:00 pm: Conference Opening
Welcome of the participants (Prof. Gabriella Hauch, ITH President)
Obituary to Prof. Étienne-Richard Mbaya, ITH Vice president, who
died in Kinshasa in October 2001 (Winfried R. Garscha)
Welcome by representatives of
- the University of Linz (Prof. Herbert Kalb, Vice Rector of Johannes Kepler
University Linz),
- the City of Linz (Elfriede Kiesewetter, member of the municipal council)
- Chamber of Labour of Upper Austria / Conference Centre "Jägermayrhof"
(Erwin Kaiser)
The reception was hosted by the Mayor of Linz
Friday, September 13, 2002
9:00 am:
Concepts (Chair: Paul Pasteur)
Paul Reynolds (Great Britain), Marxism and the Social Construction of Sexuality:
Towards a Reapproachment
Elisabeth Holzleithner (Austria), „Sex" in queer times: Körper,
Praktiken und Identitäten
Sexuality and Labour movements (Chair:
Paul Pasteur)
Karen Hunt / June Hannam (Great Britain), British socialist women and sexual
politics in the 1920s
David Berry (Great Britain), „Le feu du sang (Fire in the blood). Daniel
Guérin, the working class homosexuality"
Discussion
12:00 am: Reception by the Provincial Governor of Upper Austria, Dr. Josef Pühringer, at the Youth Hostel of Linz
1:30 pm
Sexual counselling (Chair: Maria Mesner)
Stefan Bajohr (Germany), Sexualaufklärung im Arbeitermilieu, Geschlechtskrankheiten
und staatliche Eheberatung im ersten Drittel des 20. Jahrhunderts. Überlegungen
aufgrund einer Fallstudie im Herzogtum/Freistaat Braunschweig unter Verwendung
mündlicher Quellen aus den Geburtsjahrgängen 1890-1914
Britta McEwen (USA), Teach your children well: Debates over childrens's
sexual education in Red Vienna
Lena Lennerhed (Sweden), Sex Reform in Sweden. RFSU, the Swedish Association
for Sex Education, in the 1930's and 1940's
Elisabeth Perry (USA), The Progressive-Era Dance Hall Reform Movement in
the US: To Control or Protect Working-Class Girls?
Reproductivity (Chair: Antoaneta Tcholakova)
Cornelie Usborne (Great Britain), Representation of abortion in popular
culture in Weimar Germany
Jutta Schwarzkopf (Germany), Generatives Regime, Sozialmilieu und Sozialismus
bei den BaumwollweberInnen von Lancashire
Anelia Kassabova-Dintcheva (Bulgaria), Der Diskurs über die Reproduktion
im sozialistischen Bulgarien- Eingriff und Realitätsverleugnung
Saturday, September 14, 2002
9:00 am:
Sexuality and the work place (Chair: Jürgen Hofmann)
Anne Marie Sohn (France), La sexualité des milieux populaires en
France (XIX-XXèmes siècles)
Stephen Meyer (USA), Sex and Sexuality on the Shop Floor: U.S. Auto Factories,
1930-1960
Raja Chakraborti (India), Knowledge, Attitude and Practice (KAP) study of
the Jute workers in West Bengal, India
Joan Isabel Sangster (Canada), Putting Sex in context: a materialist-feminist
analysis of the sexual regulation of Aboriginal and working-class girls
in mid-twentieth century Canada
Minjie Zhang (China), Sexual Harassment in Work. Environment and Sexual
Policies within People's Republic of China
Marginalized Sexuality (Chair: Gabriella Hauch)
Jon Binnie / Beverly Skeggs (Great Britain), Class, Sexuality and the Politics
of Transnationalism
Mustafa Abdel Rahman (Egypt), Social Construction of Sexuality, Risk and
Reproductive Health amongst Young Men in Dahab
P. Swarnalatha (India), The Refashioning of Sexuality in a Colonial Society:
„Dancing Girls" and Social Transformation in Colonial Andhra
2:00 pm:
Sexuality and Revolution (Chair: Sonja Niederacher)
Ljubov Kuznetsova (Russia), Sexualpolitik in Russland in den 20er Jahren
des 20. Jahrhunderts
Berthold Unfried (Austria), Sexualität im Diskurs von „Kritik
und Selbstkritik" in der Sowjetunion der 30er Jahre
Ruth Gutermann (Austria), Frauen und die Sexualitätsdebatte in anarchistischen
Zeitschriften der 20er und 30er Jahre in Spanien
Narges Erami (USA), Economics of Pleasure and Laws of Desire: Temporary
Marriage in Post-Revolutionary Iran
Jafari Sinclaire Allen (USA), Unruly Black Bodies: Power, Culture, Ideology,
And the Making of Afro Cuban Male Sexualities
Sunday, September 15, 2002
Departure of the participants after breakfast
Time for the speakers: 20 minutes maximum.
Breaks within the sessions will be decided by the respective chairpersons.