November 5, 2007
For Immediate Release
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Lyn Bennett
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The UVSC Department of History will host Elizabeth Clement Nov. 12 at 7 p.m. in LA 101 as part of its monthly lecture series, Turning Points in History. The title of Clement’s lecture will be“Straights, Gays and Everybody Else: Does Sexuality Have a History?”
“It’s always fun to give a lecture on a very broad topic,” Clement said. “I research much more specific things, so it’s great to have an audience where I get to summarize and focus on highlights.”
Clement is an associate professor of American history at the University of Utah, concentrating on issues of gender and sexuality. Her most recent book, published in June of 2006 by University of North Carolina Press, is titled “Love for Sale: Courting Couples, Charity Girls, Prostitutes, and the Making of Modern Heterosexuality in New York City, 1900-1945.” It focuses how American understandings of the relationship between sexual activity and morality have changed over time.
“Sexuality does have a history,” Clement said. “A lot of people think sexuality is somehow biological and somehow it hasn’t changed over time, and that just isn’t true. So it will be nice to introduce new ideas to people and to discuss the power, identity and purpose of sexuality.”
Clement received her B.A. in History and Women's Studies at Columbia University in New York City. She then went to the University of Pennsylvania, earning a Masters and Ph.D. in History and a graduate certificate in Women's Studies. She has authored several reviews and articles on prostitution, sexuality, gender and morality.
The event is free and open to the public.
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