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Book Launch for Cheating on the Sisterhood: Infidelity and Feminism by Lauren Rosewarne
Wednesday 12th August, 2009 - 6:00pm for 6:30pm
Executive Lounge, 1st Floor Alan Gilbert Building Corner of Berkeley and Grattan Streets, Carlton
Rosewarne Cover
Cheating on the Sisterhood is a feminist analysis of the imbroglio of sexual politics, brute sociobiology, and pop-mediated passion that is conjured up when a married man cheats on his wife with a younger single woman. Drawing frankly on her own case study as the other woman, Rosewarne shows what happens when all three parties to the classic triangle happen to be feminists, each trotting out a different set of feminist arguments to justify, vilify, and rationalize their actions. Is the other woman a tool of the cheating man’s assertion of gender dominance over both his mate and his mistress, such that she is willy-nilly a traitor to the sisterhood?
Most heterosexuals - including most feminist heterosexuals - continue to regard monogamy as the ultimate goal to be sought in contemporary relationships. Once the longed-for sanctuary of monogamy is attained, impulses to infidelity arise unbidden, fueled by pornography, technological change, consumerism, narcissism, and unlimited sexual choice. Cheating on the Sisterhood shows that contemporary feminism does not automatically endorse or reject any particular choices by the three parties to infidelity. Instead, it informs each of the actors of the political implications and sadomasochistic inflections of their choices.
LAUREN ROSEWARNE is a Lecturer in Public Policy in the School of Social and Political Science and is the Associate Director of the Centre for Public Policy, at the University of Melbourne, Australia. Lauren has degrees in political science, cultural studies, public policy and education. Cheating on the Sisterhood is her second book; her first, Sex in Public: Women, Outdoor Advertising and Public Policy, was published in 2007. Lauren has presented her research all over the world including in the UK, US, Sweden, Turkey, Japan and New Zealand.
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RSVP to Sheridan Nanscawen: s.nanscawen@unimelb.edu.au
Media
[radio] Listen to Lauren Rosewarne on "Conversation Hour" with Jon Faine (04 June, 2009)
[newspaper] Read interview published in Scotland on Sunday (05 July, 2009)
[radio] Listen to Lauren Rosewarne on "Drive" with Mike Welsh (22 July, 2009)
[television] Watch Lauren Rosewarne on "9am With David and Kim" (30 July, 2009)
[radio] Listen to Lauren Rosewarne on Women's Radio (31 July, 2009)
Overseas Appearances
Tuesday June 30th, 7:30pm at ReadingLasses Bookshop-Cafe in Wigtown, Scotland (click to download a flyer)
Friday July 3rd, 6:30pm at UrbanThink! Bookstore in Florida, USA (click to download a flyer)
Wednesday July 8th, 7:00pm at True Colors Bookstore in Minnesota, USA (click to download a flyer)
Thursday July 9th, 7:00pm at Main Street Books in North Dakota, USA (click to download a flyer)
Wednesday July 15th, 7:00pm at Changing Hands Bookstore in Arizona, USA (click to download a flyer)
Thursday July 16th, 7:00pm at In Other Words Books in Oregon, USA (click to download a flyer)
Date Created: 10 Jan 2006
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Authorised By: Professor Mark Considine, Centre for Public Policy, Faculty of Arts
Maintainer: Lauren Rosewarne, Centre for Public Policy
Email: lrose@ unimelb.edu.au