| Date | Time | Location |
|---|---|---|
| Monday, November 25, 2013 | 2:00PM - 4:00PM | Seminar Room 108N, Munk School of Global Affairs 1 Devonshire Place |
Recent mobilization against same-sex marriage has taken France by surprise. In mobilizing against same-sex marriage, the movement is articulating a critique of “bobo” (bourgeois bohemian) consumerism, claims to be against “gender theory,” and insists that they can be feminist and non-homophobic at the same time. This talk makes sense of these seemingly disparate threads. Based on ethnographic research and interviews with the movement’s founders and members, Prof. Geva argues that the movement has formed around a sophisticated critique of economic and political liberalism. The movement draws from French psychoanalysis, in conjunction with Catholic notions of natural law and “human anthropology,” and strains of French feminism emphasizing the universality of sexual difference. These intellectual currents enable the movement to view same-sex marriage as symptomatic of a cosmopolitan class of elites perpetuating radical commodification under the guise of arguing for individual rights, where anything can be bought and sold for the purposes of individual satisfaction, including children (through a market of adoption), women’s bodies (through surrogacy), and even one’s gender or sexual identity.
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