{"id":513,"date":"2023-04-07T17:45:43","date_gmt":"2023-04-07T21:45:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.psychlabs.ryerson.ca\/template1\/?page_id=513"},"modified":"2024-05-22T10:09:47","modified_gmt":"2024-05-22T14:09:47","slug":"about-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/psychlabs.torontomu.ca\/shiftlab\/about-us\/","title":{"rendered":"About us"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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The lab\u2019s research focus is on the psychological and sociocultural context of dominant discourses about sexuality and gender. Among the cultural mediators that both represent and reconfigure bodily, sexual and identity norms and practices are media, marketing and medical authorities. In our work, we examine how \u2018responsible\u2019 neoliberal and postfeminist subjects are constructed in a range of representational contexts that target embodiment, identities and practices.<\/p>

Sample studies include: sexual agency and desire in the context of postfeminism, sexual entrepreneurship and pornography; popular and medical depictions of recreational sexual enhancement medication use; recreational sexual enhancement medication users\u2019 accounts of sexuality; penile rehabilitation patient literature messages; sexuality following prostate cancer treatment among men and their partners; women\u2019s consumption of male homoerotic media; and men\u2019s popular instructional texts and techniques for attaining multiple female sex partners. These projects represent growing scholarship on the ways neoliberal and postfeminist discourses converge on bodies and identities to shape responsible (depoliticized) sexual subjects as requiring ongoing enhancement, mastery, and autonomous control. We rely on a range of theoretical approaches broadly categorized as critical sexuality scholarship.<\/p><\/div><\/article>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Critical Sexuality Scholarship<\/h3>

A critical sexuality studies perspective guides our work. This approach addresses the ways sexology and popular discourses produce specific gendered modes of sexual subjectivity, sexual norms and meanings, sexual representations, and sexual wellbeing. We examine the construction and constriction of sexual concepts and practices, by tracking the culturally \u2013 and historically \u2013 specific epistemic and empirical foundations and implications of sexuality research.<\/p>

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Feminist Epistemologies and Methodologies<\/h3>

Feminist epistemologies and methodologies \u2013 with feminist poststructuralism and discursive approaches as central analytic tools \u2013 direct our theoretical and empirical work. We critically examine sexuality scholarship, with attention to assumptions about normality, health, desire, agency, pleasure, and the conduct of relationships.<\/p>

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Sexual Meanings, Messages and Practices<\/h3>

We have studied sexual meanings, messages and practices in the context of health issues, such as: sexuality in women living with HIV\/AIDS; masculinity and sexuality in men with testicular cancer; lesbian and bisexual women\u2019s health resources; and the role of sexual health education in sexual norm development.\r\n\r\nThe theoretical and epistemic parameters have focused on: the epistemological location of bisexuality within queer theory; self-labeling decisions among bisexual women; traversing affect scholarship, post-Lacanian feminist psychoanalysis and feminist poststructuralism to examine how sexual messages and ideologies permeate and persist across social and psychic spaces; and psychology\u2019s perpetuation of queer men\u2019s body dissatisfaction imperative.<\/p>

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