Selfish Women: A Lecture with Lisa Downing
Join us for a special lecture with St Cross alumna Lisa Downing, who will discuss the research behind her new book: Selfish Women. The event will be followed by a drinks reception.

Lisa Downing is Professor of French Discourses of Sexuality at the University of Birmingham, UK. She is a specialist in interdisciplinary sexuality and gender studies, critical theory, and the history of cultural concepts, focusing especially on questions of exceptionality, difficulty, and (ab)normality. Recent books include: The Subject of Murder: Gender, Exceptionality, and the Modern Killer (2013); Fuckology: Critical Essays on John Money’s Diagnostic Concepts (co-authored with Iain Morland and Nikki Sullivan, 2015); and After Foucault (as editor, 2018), as well as Selfish Women. Her next book project will be a short manifesto entitled Against Affect.
Date: 22 November 2019, 17:45
Venue: St Cross College, St Giles OX1 3LZ
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Speaker: Professor Lisa Downing (University of Birmingham)
Organising department: St Cross College
Organiser: St Cross College
Host: St Cross College
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