Kinship and Demarcation: What’s Special About Sexual Orientation?

Tue, September 27, 2022 5:00 PM at JMC Library (332 Case)

Join 2022 Stephen O. Murray Scholar-in-Residence Dr. Matthew Andler, Louise M. Olmsted Fellow for Ethics at Lafayette College, for his first public lecture "Kinship and Demarcation: What’s Special About Sexual Orientation?" 

Why do certain aspects of sexuality (such as being attracted to men) as opposed to others (such as being attracted to short people) count as sexual orientations? In this talk, I argue that orientation-grounding sexual dispositions, as opposed to mere sexual dispositions, take on the status of sexual orientations in virtue of their privileging, subordinating, and/or marginalizing roles within heteropatriarchal kinship structures. Sexual orientation would not exist in a just society. 

Learn more about Dr. Andler and the Stephen O. Murray Scholar-in-Residence program.