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SUMMARY:Laurie Denyer Willis (University of Edinburgh) "Wife-Work in an E
 vangelical Rio: Pleasure\, Protection and the Minimally Safe Bedroom"
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DESCRIPTION:This talk begins from an unlikely scene: a sex costume party 
 hosted by an evangelical pastor in a woman’s home in Rio de Janeiro\, wh
 ere lingerie is prayed over as a tool of marital protection. Drawing on 
 ethnographic research in Rio’s subúrbios\, women’s evangelical networks 
 and digital spaces\, I examine how conservative evangelical projects tea
 ch women to cultivate pleasure and desire within their marriages. I plac
 e these pedagogies of pleasure within a broader project I call ‘wife-wor
 k’\, or the intimate labour through which women learn to sustain marriag
 e\, and make patriarchal relations desirable and worth defending. In a c
 ontext of chronic urban insecurity and the tightening entanglement of ev
 angelical and far-right politics\, sexual pleasure becomes one technique
  through which the heterosexual family is imagined as a space of protect
 ion. I develop the idea of the “minimally safe bedroom” to describe how 
 structural insecurity is translated into intimate responsibility. Wife-w
 ork relocates the work of making life safe onto women’s bodies and relat
 ionships\, while offering small but consequential experiences of pleasur
 e and security in return. \n\nLaurie Denyer Willis is Senior Lecturer in
  Medical Anthropology at the University of Edinburgh and Director of the
  Edinburgh Centre for Medical Anthropology. \n
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CLASS:PUBLIC
LOCATION:Boardroom\, 2nd floor\, Arthur Lewis Building\, Manchester
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