|
A List
4/2/07
DANIELLE EGAN WILL GIVE PISKOR LECTURE AT SLU APRIL 9
CANTON - The 2007 Frank P. Piskor Faculty Lecture at St. Lawrence University, "Producing
Pathology through the Pedagogy of Purity: Childhood Sexuality and the Social Purity
Movement," will be given by Associate Professor of Gender Studies R. Danielle Egan on
Monday, April 9, at 7:30 p.m. in Herring-Cole Hall. The event, followed by a reception,
is open to the public, free of charge.
In the talk, Egan will examine the role of "social purity campaigners" and "moral
educationalists" in their attempts to shape views of children's sexuality. According
to Egan, in the early 1900s, "social purity activists and moral educationalists fused
with another social movement - social hygiene. Both purity and social hygiene employed
moralizing discourses on children's sexuality recommending the locus of social control
on a child's life be the mother in the home, perpetuating conservative ideas of hearth
and home. Social hygiene further legitimated the cause of moral education by placing
its concerns within the parameters of disease and health as opposed to only religion.
Forming associations such as the White Cross League and the Purity and Hygiene
Association in England, Australia and the United States, social hygienists worked
to create a 'healthy society' - both corporeally and morally. Health in their
movement became racially associated, getting equated with anti-miscegenation and
the protection of whiteness. Incorporating a type of moral public health campaign,
these organizations targeted working-class organizations to spread their message.
"Through intensive historical and archival research, I hope that my lecture will
offer insight into this complex and interesting aspect of the socio-cultural history
of sexuality," Egan says.
A faculty member at St. Lawrence since 2000, Egan is a graduate of Goucher College
and earned the Ph.D. at Boston College. She has published work in Critical Sociology;
Body and Society; Deviant Behavior; and The Journal of Psychoanalysis, Society and
Culture. She is the author of the book Dancing
for Dollars and Paying for Love: The Relationships Between Exotic Dancers and Their Regulars
and one of three editors of the book of essays Flesh
For Fantasy: Producing and Consuming Exotic Dance. In addition to her work on
exotic dance, she has written on post-9/11 rhetoric, pedagogy and popular culture.
Egan received the Louis and
Frances Maslow Award at St. Lawrence in 2005; it annually goes to the faculty member
who has shown "the most interest in and understanding of the education and welfare of the
student body as a whole."
The Piskor Faculty Lectureship was established in 1979 to encourage original and
continued research among St. Lawrence faculty members, to recognize and honor
distinguished scholarship and to afford the opportunity for faculty to share their
learning with the academic community.
-30-
More information: Social Sciences at St. Lawrence
|
