Book Talk: Sexual Citizens

Monday, September 27, 2021 | 12:00 PM ET | Virtual

This program is presented by the Georgetown University Gender⁺ Justice Initiative, Women’s Center, Women’s and Gender Studies Program, Georgetown College, Title IX Office, and Student Health Services.

Join us for a conversation with Jennifer Hirsch and Shamus Khan, the authors of Sexual Citizens: A Landmark Study of Sex, Power, and Assault on Campus (WW Norton, 2021). Moderated by Nadia Brown, Professor of Government; Director, Women’s and Gender Studies Program, Georgetown University.

Sexual Citizens is a groundbreaking study that transforms how we understand and address sexual assault. Through intimate portraits of life and sex among today’s college students, the authors reveal the social ecosystem that makes sexual assault a predictable element of life on a college campus. The powerful concepts of sexual projects, sexual citizenship, and sexual geographies, provide a new language for understanding the forces that shape young people’s sexual relationships. The result transforms our understanding of sexual assault and provides a new roadmap for how to address it.

About the authors:

Jennifer Hirsch is a professor of socio-medical sciences at the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University. Her research spans five intertwined domains: the anthropology of love; gender, sexuality, and migration; sexual, reproductive, and HIV risk practices; social scientific research on sexual assault and undergraduate well-being, and the intersections between anthropology and public health.

Shamus Khan is a professor of Sociology and American Studies at Princeton University. He is the author of dozens of books and articles on inequality, American Culture, gender, and elites. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Washington Post, CNN, and many other media outlets.

This event is free and open to all.