Podcast appearances and mentions of Janet R Jakobsen

Rendering Unconscious episode 247. Today's guests are Drs. Avgi Saketopoulou and Ann Pellegrini. They are here tp discuss their new book Gender Without Identity (UIT Press, 2023). https://uitbooks.com/shop/gender-without-identity Avgi Saketopoulou is a psychoanalyst in private practice in NYC, and a member of the faculty at New York University's Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. She is the author of Sexuality Beyond Consent: Risk, Race, Traumatophilia from the Sexual Cultures Series, NYU Press. https://www.avgisaketopoulou.com Ann Pellegrini is Professor of Performance Studies & Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University, and a practicing psychoanalyst. Their books include Performance Anxieties: Staging Psychoanalysis, Staging Race and Love the Sin: Sexual Regulation and the Limits of Religious Tolerance (coauthored with Janet R. Jakobsen). https://as.nyu.edu/faculty/ann-pellegrini.html This episode also available to view at YouTube: https://youtu.be/BgjmBx22B2I You can support the podcast at our Patreon, where we post exclusive content every week: https://www.patreon.com/vanessa23carl Your support is greatly appreciated! Rendering Unconscious Podcast is hosted by Dr. Vanessa Sinclair, a psychoanalyst based in Sweden, who works with people internationally: www.drvanessasinclair.net Follow Dr. Vanessa Sinclair on social media: Twitter: https://twitter.com/rawsin_ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rawsin_/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@drvanessasinclair23 Visit the main website for more information and links to everything: www.renderingunconscious.org The song at the end of the episode is “There is only one libido” from the album This is Voyeurism by Vanessa Sinclair and Pete Murphy. Available at Bandcamp. https://petemurphy.bandcamp.com All music at Swedish independent record label Highbrow Lowlife Bandcamp page is name your price. Enjoy! https://highbrowlowlife.bandcamp.com Music also available to stream via Spotify & other streaming platforms. Many thanks to Carl Abrahamsson, who created the intro and outro music for Rendering Unconscious podcast. https://www.carlabrahamsson.com Image of book cover

Dr. Janet R. Jakobsen is a world renowned scholar and Chair and Claire Tow Professor of Women's Gender and Sexuality Studies at Barnard College. Her academic focuses include feminist theory, queer theory, religion and politics, ethics, activism, and public policy. Her newest book The Sex Obsession: Perversity and Possibility in American Politics offers a way to undo the inextricable American knot of sex, politics, religion and power. Dr. Jakobsen speaks to Rachael today about how American politics are obsessed with sex. Rachael and Dr. Jakobsen also cover her book with Dr. Ann Pellegrini Love the Sin. Dr. Jakobsen shares her exploration of why secular institutions habitually use religion to regulate sexual life.

Host Cyrus Webb welcomes author Janet R. Jakobsen to #ConversationsLIVE to discuss her new book THE SEX OBSESSION: Perversity and Possibility In American Politics. 

On this week's 51%, we discuss The Sex Obsession: Perversity and Possibility in American Politics with author Janet R. Jakobsen. In The Sex Obsession: Perversity and Possibility in American Politics (NYU Press), Janet R. Jakobsen examines how gender and sexuality have reappeared time and again at the center of political life, and is marked by […]

On this week’s 51%, we discuss The Sex Obsession: Perversity and Possibility in American Politics with author Janet R. Jakobsen. In The Sex Obsession: Perversity and Possibility in American Politics (NYU Press), Janet R. Jakobsen examines how gender and sexuality have reappeared time and again at the center of political life, and is marked by […]

Janet R. Jakobsen is Director of the Center for Research on Women, Professor of Women’s Studies, and Dean for Faculty Diversity and Development at Barnard College, Columbia University. Her Ph.D. is from Emory University in Religious Studies with a specialization in the Ethics and Society. She is the author of Working Alliances and the Politics of Difference: Diversity and Feminist Ethics (Indiana University Press 1998) and with Ann Pellegrini of Love the Sin: Sexual Regulation and the Limits of Religious Tolerance (New York University Press, 2003). Her most recent anthology, also with Ann Pellegrini, is Secularisms (Duke University Press, 2008), and she co-edited Interventions: Activists and Academics Respond to Violence with Elizabeth Castelli (Palgrave, 2004). Her current book project is Perverse Ethics: Secular Freedom and the Problem of Sex. She has held fellowships at the Udall Center for the Study of Public Policy at the University of Arizona, the Center for the Humanities at Wesleyan University, and the Center for the Study of Values and Public Life at Harvard Divinity School and served as a visiting professor for Wesleyan University’s Ethics Project and Harvard University’s Program in Studies of Women, Gender and Sexuality. Before entering the academy, she was a policy analyst and organizer in Washington, D.C..

On this week's 51%, we discuss The Sex Obsession: Perversity and Possibility in American Politics with author Janet R. Jakobsen. In The Sex Obsession: Perversity and Possibility in American Politics (NYU Press), Janet R. Jakobsen examines how gender and sexuality have reappeared time and again at the center of political life, and is marked by a series of widely recognized issues and movements. Jakobsen is a professor of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Columbia's Barnard College. That's our show for this week. Thanks to Tina Renick for production assistance. Our executive producer is Dr. Alan Chartock. Our theme music is Glow in the Dark by Kevin Bartlett. This show is a national production of Northeast Public Radio. If you'd like to hear this show again, sign up for our podcast, or visit the 51% archives on our web site at wamc.org. And follow us on Twitter @51PercentRadio This week's show is #1629.