Yukon College hosts a public lecture on women's sexuality

Yukon College is hosting the Ruth Wynn Woodard Chair in Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies, Thea Cacchioni. This published lecturer and researcher will provide a public talk at Yukon College on, “Sex, Lies and Medicine: the Search for the Pink Viagra” on Monday, February 28th from 12 to 1pm.

This lecture is part of the “Traveling Speakers Series” sponsored by Simon Fraser University. “The year 2011 marks the 41st anniversary of women’s studies as a discipline in Canada, and it is very timely to host the accomplished researcher and lecturer, Thea Cacchioni”, says Dr. Deborah Bartlette, Dean, Applied Arts. She added, “In the spirit of building a community of learners, we have made the Cacchioni lecture open to the public and encourage anyone to attend”.

Cacchioni will also be giving two talks at the Whitehorse Public Library. The first one is scheduled for the evening of February 28th and is titled, “Learning About Sex and Love in the Post Viagra Age”. On the evening of the March 1st her talk is titled, “Challenging the Medical View of Women’s Sexual Problems”.

The interests of Thea Cacchioni include gender, sexuality, health, female sexual dysfunction and the Sexual Revolution. She has published in a number of journals and is currently working on a book entitled The Labour of Love: Women in the Second Sexual Revolution (University of Toronto Press).

This public lecture begins at 12 noon in lecture theatre A2206, at Yukon College.