Conference Abstracts

1. Mr Ojo AGUNBIADE, Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria
   Spirituality, Identity and Sexually Ageing Well Among Yoruba People in Southwest Nigeria
2. Mr Faisal AL-DOORI, Aberystwyth University, United Kingdom
   Yeats and Gonne: The Emotional Defeat
3. Mr Javier BALBAS, Casa Lamm, Mexico
   Breaking down the Self: "The Song of the Women from Chalco"
4. Dr Fewzia BENYELLES BEDJAOUI & Ms Nassima ZOBIR BOUGUERBA, Sidi Bel Abbes University, Algeria
   Women's Private Sexuality versus Socio-Religious Norms
5. Dr Guadalupe BRAK LAMY, New University of Lisbon, Portugal
   Languages of Heterosexual Seduction in Urban Night Context: An Anthropological Approach
6. Ms Namita CHAKRABARTY, University of East London, United Kingdom
   The Sexuality of Mourning: Hamlet, Sinead and 'Sacrifice'
7. Ms Xinli CHI, University of Hong Kong, China
   An Exploratory Study on Chinese College Student's LGBT Characteristics, Attitudes and Influencing Factors: Implication for Sexual Diversity Education
8. Mr Kevin CHRISTOPHERSEN & Ms Peg MURPHY, Columbia College Chicago USA
   The Man behind the Digital Image: Self-Documentation and Identity
9. Dr Gerard CLINTON, Dublin City University, Ireland. Idolising Nimrod: The Construction of Masculinity in Evangelicalism (Replacement Paper)
10. Dr Catherine CONLON, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
    Concealing Pregnancy, Revealing Pregnant Women Embodied Subjectivity
11. Ms Renata DALMASO, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil,
    "I'm a he-she, that's different": Negotiating Queer Legibility in Leslie Feinberg's Stone Butch Blues
12. Ms Shiquise DAVIS, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, U.S.A.
    The Porn Aesthetic and Designer Snowflakes
13. Dr Elaine DEWHURST Dublin City University, Ireland
    The Gender Recognition Bill 2011: Worthy of Praise or Riddled with Problems?
14. Ms Laura DI SPURIO Université Libre de Bruxelles, Begium
    Coming of Age in Belgium (1945-1968): Adolescence and Sex
15. Ms Lesley DIBLEY Bucks New University,United Kingdom
    The Challenges of Sampling for Sensitive/Sexualities Research
16. Dr Mel DUFFY, Dublin City University: Older Lesbian Women's Memories (Replacement Paper)
17. Ms Yaroslava EVSEEVA, Moscow City Pedagogical University, Russia
    Representation of Older People's Sexuality in Russian Contemporary Art
18. Dr Akanle FLORENCE,University of Ado Ekiti, Nigeria
    Gender-Based Sexual Violence among Nigerian Widows: Implication for HIV Transmission
19. Ms Hayley FOX-ROBERT, Ireland
    'Finding Your Goddess: An Exploration of Lesbian Self-Identification through the Work of Four Lesbian Poets'
20. Mr Adrian GOODWIN, University College Cork, Ireland
    'Bending Digits': John Broderick's Queer Hands
21. Dr John GRAY, University of London, United Kingdom
    Lesbian and Gay Invisibility and the Heteronomative Framing of Identity in English Language Teaching (ELT) Materials
22. Ms Suzanne HOLSOMBACK, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
    Representations and Expressions of Female Sexuality in Indigenous Tunisian art
23. Mr Ben HUGHES, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
    Sexual Addiction': Medical Labelling or Clinical Entity?
24. Mr Jean-Philippe Imbert, Dublin City University, Ireland. Ananda Devi's Le Sari Vert: Filth, Flames and Agony (Replacement Paper)
25. Ms Emma Jean KELLY & Mr John Eamon KELLY, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand (via Camtasia)
    Queer Stories Our Fathers Never Told Us
26. Dr Holly KENT, University of Illinois, Springfield, U.S.A.
    "You Can't Read This Magazine and Be a Pussy...But Your Pussy Will Be Glad That You Read This Magazine": Sexuality in Third-Wave Feminist Periodicals
27. Mr Barry KESTELL, Dublin City University, Ireland
    The Body is for Each Other: Heterosexual Males' Experiences of their Bodies in the Gym
28. Ms Annelies KLEINHERENBRINK, Universiteit Utrecht & Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, Netherlands
    Unintelligible Sexuality' as a Body without Organs
29. Dr Marion KRAUTHAKER-RINGA ,National University of Ireland, Galway
    Women's Odysseys towards a Fulfilling Gender Identity in Edna O'Brien's Fiction
30. Ms Verena Chiara KUCKENBERGER Medical University of Graz/University of Graz, Austria
    'Porn for Women' Characteristics and Consumption of Female Porn
31. Ms Marian LARA-JAEN , Dublin City University, Ireland
    Cherríe Moraga:The Sexualised Space of a Chicana Lesbian
32. Dr Philip MARTIN, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
    Confounding Choices: Local Challenges to Neoliberal Reproductive Health Discourses
33. Ms Dearbhla MC GRATH, Dublin City University, Ireland
    Transforming Tales - Sexual Imagery in Cupid and Psyche (Apuleius) and Serpentin Vert (Mme d'Aulnoy)
34. Dr Majella MCSHARRY, Dublin City University,Ireland
    Conforming or Countering Femininities? Secondary School Sport
35. Ms Ayda MEHRARA Islamic Azad University, Iran
    Abjection as a Collective Phenomenon in Winterson's novels: A Kristevan Reading
36. Ms Nicola MOFFAT University College Cork, Ireland
    "I opened my mouth to speak in the midst of silence": Performativity of Language in the Canonization of 'St. Derek'
37. Ms Sadashni MOODELY, & Mr Philip RYAN, Dublin City University & DIT, Ireland
    The Exploitation of Sexuality, Fine art and the 'Defenders of Public Decency': A Visual Analysis of Three Risqué Fashion Advertisement Campaigns
38. Ms Claire MORAN University of Queensland, Australia
    Women's Constructions of Heterosexual Casual Sex and the Implications for Sexual Health
39. Mr Oludele Adesina MOYOFADE MDAM, Nigeria
    Cultural Representation of Sexuality: Perspective of African Tradition/Advent of Globalisation
40. Ms Alexandra NEAGU, Bucharest University, Romania
    Sexualising the Body as Social Marking in Classical Greece
41. Ms Kristen NIELSEN, Queen's University Belfast, Northern Ireland
    Can We Not Deliver Both the Gospel and Children?: An Examination of Gender Identity and Formation Among Modern Christianity
42. Dr Mervi PATOSALMI, University of Helsinki, Finland
    Towards Sexual Agency – Freedom and Sexuate Being
43. Jovana PAVIĆEVIĆ, University of Kragujevac, Serbia
    Models of Love and Sexuality in Sarah Kane's play Cleansed
44. Elizabeth PAZOS, Centro de Investigaciones Psiquiátricas Psicológicas y Sexológicas de Venezuela, Venezuela
    Nightwood: Literary Recreations of Fragmented Early Childhood Sexual Experiences
45. Dr Yulia PUSHKAREVSKAYA NAUGHTON, University College Dublin, Ireland
    The Island as a Chora: Beyond 'Insular' Sexualities
46. Mr Adam RECZUCH, Dr Katarzyna WASZYNSKA, Wrocław University of Economics, Poland Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland
    Social and Financial Exclusion in Relation to Prostitution in Post-Communist Countries 
47. Mr Johann Andrew V SAGMIT, Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines
    The Conceptualisation of a Non-Gender Specific Sexual Self-Schema
48. Ms Angélick SCHWEIZER, Ms Christine BRUCHEZ & Prof. Marie SANTIAGO DELEFOSSE, Université de Lausanne, Switzerland
    Integrating Sexuality Issues into Medical Consultation : the Gynaecologists' Point of View
49. Ms Aurérie SICARD, Dublin City University, Ireland
    From Predators to "Innocent" Victims: Sexuality Projected by Women on TV
50. Dr Dariusz Piotr SKOWRONSKI & Ms Wan Yi GOH, Temasek Polytechnic, Singapore
    Attachment Styles and Sexual Behaviour among Young Singaporeans
51. Ms Marelise SPIES, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland
    The Psychosocial Construction of Lesbians' Sense of Self and Sexual Identity in Ireland
52. Dr Cheryl STOBIE, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
    "The Devil Slapped on the Genitals": Religion and Spirituality in Queer South Africans' Lives
53. Prof.Kwok-kan TAM, Open University of Hong Kong, China
    Body/Cultural Politics: Bisexual Identity in a Hong Kong Novel Dual Body
54. Mr Hailemichael TESFAYE, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia
    A Critical Discourse Analysis of the Policy versus Practice on the Rights of Women in Ethiopia
55. Ms Jane TRAIES, University of Sussex, United Kingdom
    'Women Like That': Lesbian Selves after Sixty
56. Biljana VLASKOVIĆ, University of Kragujevac, Serbia
    George Bernard Shaw: From Misogyny to Philogyny
57. Dr Bing WANG & Dr Qi ZHANG Sun Yat-sen University, China & Dublin City University, Ireland
    The Attitudes of Chinese University Students towards the Feminine Style of Internet Language
58. Ms Sana GAITONDE, Dr Tigerson YOUNG & Dr Wallace WONG, Diversity Emotional Wellness Center, Canada
    Parental Anguish and Distress: A Qualitative Study on Parents Raising a Transgender Youth
59. Dr Jo WOODIWISS, University of Huddersfield, United Kingdom
    (Re)constructing / Negotiating a Sexual Self
60. Ms Rachel WOOD, University of Sussex, United Kingdom
    Sexualities for Sale: Delineating Female Desire in Sex Shop Space
61. Ms Özge YAKUT, TOBB Economy and Technology University, Turkey
    Cixous's écriture feminine in Written on the Body
62. Dr Terry YIP, Hong Kong Baptist Unversity, Hong Kong, China
    Body and the Self: The Interplay between Self and Sexuality in Twentieth-century Chinese Women's Writings