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Eeva Sointu

Eeva Sointu

Dr Eeva Sointu is an Associate Professor of Sociology at York St John University, researching gender, the body, health and medicine, and author of the forthcoming 'The Clitoris: A Social History'.

Sep 23, 2026

45:03
Could you talk a bit more about how that is presented in your research?
45:07
Yeah, that's a really, really important topic.
45:11
When you research something like sex, and I'm talking about sex not as a category, but as a process, as a practice.
45:20
Because of power relations, because of gender relations, there's absolutely always all sorts of fears.
45:25
Fears of not being sexy enough or fears of not being good enough or desirable enough.
45:31
Those sorts of fears.
45:32
But fears of actually sexual violence also that are embedded in the discussions.

11 MINS LATER

56:50
it is so timely with everything going on in the world to do with gender and the body and sex yeah absolutely one last question just about the book who would you say the book's for and what do you hope that people take from it

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