Maria Gurevich
Director, SHiFT Lab (Sexuality Hub: Integrating Feminist Theory)
Professor
Faculty of Arts
Department of Psychology
Toronto, Ontario
mgurevic@torontomu.ca
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(416) 979-5000 ext. 557570
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Bio/Research
Dr. Gurevich is the Director of the SHiFT Lab (Sexuality Hub: Integrating Feminist Theory). She joined Toro Metropolitan’san’s (formerly Ryerson) Psychology Department in 2001, following a Clinical/Research Fellowship in Psychosocial Oncology (Princess Margaret Hospital, 1999-2001), and a postdoc...
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Bio/Research
Dr. Gurevich is the Director of the SHiFT Lab (Sexuality Hub: Integrating Feminist Theory). She joined Toro Metropolitan’san’s (formerly Ryerson) Psychology Department in 2001, following a Clinical/Research Fellowship in Psychosocial Oncology (Princess Margaret Hospital, 1999-2001), and a postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Health Psychology at Mount Saint Vincent University (1996-1998).
Her research examines the ways that popular and scientific discourses about sexuality intersect with people’s everyday experiences, with negotiations of sexual (im)possibilities and (dis)pleasures at the core. This work interrogates normative assumptions about sexual health, agency, desire, and relationship conduct based on privilege, power, and access. A central line of research addresses the role of sexual technologies in sexual expectations and practices (e.g., pornography, sexual enhancement medication, sexual expert advice, and digital dating). A critical sexuality studies approach is adopted, wherein the construction and constriction of sexual concepts and practices are examined by tracking the culturally- and historically-specific epistemic and empirical foundations of sexuality research.
A key focus of the SHiFT lab is “ow “respons” ble” neoliberal and postfeminist subjects are constructed in a range of representational contexts that target embodiment, identities and practices. Lab members adopt feminist poststructuralist, queer, contemporary psychoanalytic and affect theoretical approaches in their work.
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Her research examines the ways that popular and scientific discourses about sexuality intersect with people’s everyday experiences, with negotiations of sexual (im)possibilities and (dis)pleasures at the core. This work interrogates normative assumptions about sexual health, agency, desire, and relationship conduct based on privilege, power, and access. A central line of research addresses the role of sexual technologies in sexual expectations and practices (e.g., pornography, sexual enhancement medication, sexual expert advice, and digital dating). A critical sexuality studies approach is adopted, wherein the construction and constriction of sexual concepts and practices are examined by tracking the culturally- and historically-specific epistemic and empirical foundations of sexuality research.
A key focus of the SHiFT lab is “ow “respons” ble” neoliberal and postfeminist subjects are constructed in a range of representational contexts that target embodiment, identities and practices. Lab members adopt feminist poststructuralist, queer, contemporary psychoanalytic and affect theoretical approaches in their work.
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