Gloria González-López
- Published in print:
- 2003
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780520225619
- eISBN:
- 9780520929869
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520225619.003.0011
- Subject:
- Sociology, Migration Studies (including Refugee Studies)
This chapter proposes a bridging of the immigration and gender and sexuality fields in order to carefully study the fluid sexual reinventions that are created by mexicanas in the United States. It ...
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This chapter proposes a bridging of the immigration and gender and sexuality fields in order to carefully study the fluid sexual reinventions that are created by mexicanas in the United States. It proposes an idea that is based on recent scholarship on the interrelated dynamics of migration, gender, and sexuality. The discussion studies the things Mexican immigrant women teach their daughters about sexuality, most especially about premarital virginity. It uses data from in-depth interviews with Mexican immigrant women located in Los Angeles, and tries to determine how Mexican women give sex education for their daughters. The chapter also suggests that the moral standards of Catholicism are only part influencing the ideas of the mexicanas on virginity.Less
This chapter proposes a bridging of the immigration and gender and sexuality fields in order to carefully study the fluid sexual reinventions that are created by mexicanas in the United States. It proposes an idea that is based on recent scholarship on the interrelated dynamics of migration, gender, and sexuality. The discussion studies the things Mexican immigrant women teach their daughters about sexuality, most especially about premarital virginity. It uses data from in-depth interviews with Mexican immigrant women located in Los Angeles, and tries to determine how Mexican women give sex education for their daughters. The chapter also suggests that the moral standards of Catholicism are only part influencing the ideas of the mexicanas on virginity.
Robert Mills
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- September 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780226169125
- eISBN:
- 9780226169262
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226169262.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, European Medieval History
During the Middle Ages in Europe, some sexual and gendered behaviors were labeled “sodomitical” or evoked using ambiguous phrases such as the “unmentionable vice” or the “sin against nature.” How, ...
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During the Middle Ages in Europe, some sexual and gendered behaviors were labeled “sodomitical” or evoked using ambiguous phrases such as the “unmentionable vice” or the “sin against nature.” How, though, did these categories enter the field of vision? How do you know a sodomite when you see one? Challenging the view that medieval ideas about sexual and gender dissidence were too confused to congeal into a coherent form, this book demonstrates that sodomy had a rich, multimedia presence in the period—and that a flexible approach to questions of terminology sheds new light on the many forms this presence took. Arguing that we need to take account of the role played by translation—whether visual, verbal, or cultural—in endowing sodomy with a pictorial or textual form, the book also considers the extent to which medieval materials can be re-visioned in light of twenty-first-century categories of thought. Also, the book advances discussion by showing how greater attention needs to be paid to motifs of gender slippage and to notions of imitation and derivation in medieval encounters with sex. Among the topics covered are depictions of the practices of sodomites in illuminated Bibles; motifs of gender transformation and sex change as envisioned by medieval artists and commentators on Ovid; sexual relations in religious houses and other enclosed spaces; and the applicability of modern categories such as “transgender,” “butch” and “femme,” “queer,” and “sexual orientation” to medieval culture.Less
During the Middle Ages in Europe, some sexual and gendered behaviors were labeled “sodomitical” or evoked using ambiguous phrases such as the “unmentionable vice” or the “sin against nature.” How, though, did these categories enter the field of vision? How do you know a sodomite when you see one? Challenging the view that medieval ideas about sexual and gender dissidence were too confused to congeal into a coherent form, this book demonstrates that sodomy had a rich, multimedia presence in the period—and that a flexible approach to questions of terminology sheds new light on the many forms this presence took. Arguing that we need to take account of the role played by translation—whether visual, verbal, or cultural—in endowing sodomy with a pictorial or textual form, the book also considers the extent to which medieval materials can be re-visioned in light of twenty-first-century categories of thought. Also, the book advances discussion by showing how greater attention needs to be paid to motifs of gender slippage and to notions of imitation and derivation in medieval encounters with sex. Among the topics covered are depictions of the practices of sodomites in illuminated Bibles; motifs of gender transformation and sex change as envisioned by medieval artists and commentators on Ovid; sexual relations in religious houses and other enclosed spaces; and the applicability of modern categories such as “transgender,” “butch” and “femme,” “queer,” and “sexual orientation” to medieval culture.
Richard Parker, Regina Maria Barbosa, and Peter Aggleton
- Published in print:
- 2000
- Published Online:
- May 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780520218369
- eISBN:
- 9780520922754
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520218369.003.0011
- Subject:
- Anthropology, Medical Anthropology
This chapter aims to re-think the types of intervention strategies that have controlled education and prevention approaches to HIV/AIDS vulnerability. It analyzes in detail the roles of gender and ...
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This chapter aims to re-think the types of intervention strategies that have controlled education and prevention approaches to HIV/AIDS vulnerability. It analyzes in detail the roles of gender and sexuality in the experience of young night school students from impoverished inner-city neighborhoods in Sāo Paulo. It shows the many ways structural forces impact upon, and limit the choices available to boys and girls. This chapter also presents a conceptual framework for the deconstruction and reconstruction of gender relations and sexual experience through a dialogical and dialectical methodology that is originally pioneered in struggles against illiteracy and class oppression.Less
This chapter aims to re-think the types of intervention strategies that have controlled education and prevention approaches to HIV/AIDS vulnerability. It analyzes in detail the roles of gender and sexuality in the experience of young night school students from impoverished inner-city neighborhoods in Sāo Paulo. It shows the many ways structural forces impact upon, and limit the choices available to boys and girls. This chapter also presents a conceptual framework for the deconstruction and reconstruction of gender relations and sexual experience through a dialogical and dialectical methodology that is originally pioneered in struggles against illiteracy and class oppression.
Robert Mills
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- September 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780226169125
- eISBN:
- 9780226169262
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226169262.003.0006
- Subject:
- History, European Medieval History
The Introduction begins by analyzing a miniature in the Belles Heures of Jean de Berry, which relates the legend of how Saint Jerome is subjected to a practical joke in which he mistakenly ...
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The Introduction begins by analyzing a miniature in the Belles Heures of Jean de Berry, which relates the legend of how Saint Jerome is subjected to a practical joke in which he mistakenly cross-dresses as a woman. This striking image is used as a touchstone for evaluating the relationship between gender variance and sexual dissidence in medieval and modern cultures, and the role played by visibility in shaping that relationship. When is a mode of gendered presentation, such as cross-dressing, a code for something libidinal, and when is it not? Does the visible undoing of Jerome’s “gender” have anything to say about his “sexuality”? Does it resonate with the sexual or gender identities of the book’s readers or patron? The discussion of the Belles Heures miniature builds to an overview of the book’s central themes: visibility, politics, and sodomy; the logic of sequence and motifs of secondariness; the significance of a gender-comparative analysis; questions of terminology; and the role played by translation in sodomy’s entry into the field of vision.Less
The Introduction begins by analyzing a miniature in the Belles Heures of Jean de Berry, which relates the legend of how Saint Jerome is subjected to a practical joke in which he mistakenly cross-dresses as a woman. This striking image is used as a touchstone for evaluating the relationship between gender variance and sexual dissidence in medieval and modern cultures, and the role played by visibility in shaping that relationship. When is a mode of gendered presentation, such as cross-dressing, a code for something libidinal, and when is it not? Does the visible undoing of Jerome’s “gender” have anything to say about his “sexuality”? Does it resonate with the sexual or gender identities of the book’s readers or patron? The discussion of the Belles Heures miniature builds to an overview of the book’s central themes: visibility, politics, and sodomy; the logic of sequence and motifs of secondariness; the significance of a gender-comparative analysis; questions of terminology; and the role played by translation in sodomy’s entry into the field of vision.
Laura M. Carpenter and John DeLamater
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- March 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780814772522
- eISBN:
- 9780814723814
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9780814772522.003.0001
- Subject:
- Sociology, Marriage and the Family
This chapter provides a comprehensive, general conceptual framework that can be used to investigate sexual phenomena. This framework, which is called the gendered sexuality over the life course ...
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This chapter provides a comprehensive, general conceptual framework that can be used to investigate sexual phenomena. This framework, which is called the gendered sexuality over the life course (GSLC) model, draws on influential approaches and recent developments from life course sociology, feminist theory, and the scripting approach to sexuality. It starts from the premise that events at different stages of life must be understood as fundamentally connected. Additionally, it conceptualizes gender and sexuality as jointly constructed within specific social-structural contexts and sexual identity as developing over, and influencing experiences across, the life course. More specifically, the GSLC framework posits that sexual beliefs and behaviors result from individuals' lifelong accumulations of advantageous and disadvantageous experiences—social, psychological, and physiological—and their adoption or rejection of sexual scripts within specific sociohistorical contexts.Less
This chapter provides a comprehensive, general conceptual framework that can be used to investigate sexual phenomena. This framework, which is called the gendered sexuality over the life course (GSLC) model, draws on influential approaches and recent developments from life course sociology, feminist theory, and the scripting approach to sexuality. It starts from the premise that events at different stages of life must be understood as fundamentally connected. Additionally, it conceptualizes gender and sexuality as jointly constructed within specific social-structural contexts and sexual identity as developing over, and influencing experiences across, the life course. More specifically, the GSLC framework posits that sexual beliefs and behaviors result from individuals' lifelong accumulations of advantageous and disadvantageous experiences—social, psychological, and physiological—and their adoption or rejection of sexual scripts within specific sociohistorical contexts.
Lal Zimman, Jenny Davis, and Joshua Raclaw (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- August 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780199937295
- eISBN:
- 9780199345854
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199937295.001.0001
- Subject:
- Linguistics, Sociolinguistics / Anthropological Linguistics
Across scholarship on gender and sexuality, binaries like female versus male and gay versus straight have been problematized as symbols of the stigmatization and erasure of non-normative subjects and ...
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Across scholarship on gender and sexuality, binaries like female versus male and gay versus straight have been problematized as symbols of the stigmatization and erasure of non-normative subjects and practices. The chapters of Queer Excursions offer a series of distinct perspectives on these binaries as well as on a number of other, less immediately apparent dichotomies that nevertheless permeate the gendered and sexual lives of speakers in various contexts. Some chapters focus on the limiting or misleading qualities of binaristic analyses, while others suggest that binaries are a crucial component of social meaning within particular communities of study. Rather than simply accepting binary structures as inevitable, or discarding them from our analyses entirely based on their oppressive or reductionary qualities, this volume advocates for a retheorization of the binary that affords more complex and contextually grounded engagement with speakers’ own orientations to dichotomous systems. It is from this perspective that contributors identify a number of diverging conceptualizations of binaries—including those that are non-mutually exclusive, those that liberate in the same moment that they constrain, those that are imposed implicitly by researchers, and those that recontextualize familiar divisions with innovative meanings. With each chapter having a perspective on locally salient linguistic practices that help constitute gender and sexuality in marginalized communities, what the contributions to Queer Excursions together demonstrate is that researchers must be careful to avoid the assumption that our own preconceptions about binary social structures will be shared by the communities we study.Less
Across scholarship on gender and sexuality, binaries like female versus male and gay versus straight have been problematized as symbols of the stigmatization and erasure of non-normative subjects and practices. The chapters of Queer Excursions offer a series of distinct perspectives on these binaries as well as on a number of other, less immediately apparent dichotomies that nevertheless permeate the gendered and sexual lives of speakers in various contexts. Some chapters focus on the limiting or misleading qualities of binaristic analyses, while others suggest that binaries are a crucial component of social meaning within particular communities of study. Rather than simply accepting binary structures as inevitable, or discarding them from our analyses entirely based on their oppressive or reductionary qualities, this volume advocates for a retheorization of the binary that affords more complex and contextually grounded engagement with speakers’ own orientations to dichotomous systems. It is from this perspective that contributors identify a number of diverging conceptualizations of binaries—including those that are non-mutually exclusive, those that liberate in the same moment that they constrain, those that are imposed implicitly by researchers, and those that recontextualize familiar divisions with innovative meanings. With each chapter having a perspective on locally salient linguistic practices that help constitute gender and sexuality in marginalized communities, what the contributions to Queer Excursions together demonstrate is that researchers must be careful to avoid the assumption that our own preconceptions about binary social structures will be shared by the communities we study.
Jocelyne Dakhlia
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- May 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780226584645
- eISBN:
- 9780226584812
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226584812.003.0008
- Subject:
- History, Historiography
Nowhere was Hodgson’s thought so dazzling as in Venture of Islam of gender and sexuality in Islamic societies. So concludes Jocelyne Dakhlia in her surprising consideration of Hodgson’s approach. ...
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Nowhere was Hodgson’s thought so dazzling as in Venture of Islam of gender and sexuality in Islamic societies. So concludes Jocelyne Dakhlia in her surprising consideration of Hodgson’s approach. Given the dominant essentialist mode under which gender and sexuality in Islam is most often viewed, all ahistorical binaries and patriarchal nudgings, this is surprising in more than one respect. As with many topics in VOI, Hodgson's thought was both original and deep. To start with, Dakhlia introduces us to Hodgson’s distinction between what he calls the hierarchical basis of the Western household, and the egalitarian and contractual basis of the Muslim one. Dakhlia suggests that the systematic character of Hodgson’s thought pushed him to develop his views on all aspects of Islamic belief and practice more deeply than others. As a result, his thought continues to have a resonance with present day feminist theory. Otherwise Hodgson in other respects subject the governing strictures that render opaque certain aspects of the thought of previous generations, it remains surprisingly current in others. In its exploration of Hodgson’s views on gender and sexuality, Dakhlia’s chapter is one of the most challenging in this book.Less
Nowhere was Hodgson’s thought so dazzling as in Venture of Islam of gender and sexuality in Islamic societies. So concludes Jocelyne Dakhlia in her surprising consideration of Hodgson’s approach. Given the dominant essentialist mode under which gender and sexuality in Islam is most often viewed, all ahistorical binaries and patriarchal nudgings, this is surprising in more than one respect. As with many topics in VOI, Hodgson's thought was both original and deep. To start with, Dakhlia introduces us to Hodgson’s distinction between what he calls the hierarchical basis of the Western household, and the egalitarian and contractual basis of the Muslim one. Dakhlia suggests that the systematic character of Hodgson’s thought pushed him to develop his views on all aspects of Islamic belief and practice more deeply than others. As a result, his thought continues to have a resonance with present day feminist theory. Otherwise Hodgson in other respects subject the governing strictures that render opaque certain aspects of the thought of previous generations, it remains surprisingly current in others. In its exploration of Hodgson’s views on gender and sexuality, Dakhlia’s chapter is one of the most challenging in this book.
Carolyn Merritt
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- January 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780813042190
- eISBN:
- 9780813043029
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University Press of Florida
- DOI:
- 10.5744/florida/9780813042190.001.0001
- Subject:
- Music, Dance
This book examines a controversial topic that has yet to be addressed in the literature on Argentine tango, the most recent incarnation of tango nuevo (new tango) dance. Alternately attributed to ...
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This book examines a controversial topic that has yet to be addressed in the literature on Argentine tango, the most recent incarnation of tango nuevo (new tango) dance. Alternately attributed to acrobatic moves, disrespectful kids, electronic music, the influx of foreign bodies and cash into Buenos Aires, and increasing globalization of the contemporary tango community/industry, nuevo and the debates surrounding it illustrate the complexity of cultural politics today. Surveying Argentine and tango history, the book underscores the role of the imagination in the dance's evolution, as well as the presence of elements associated with nuevo-fusion, innovation, and foreign influence-from its origins over a century ago. Testaments of the dance's healing and addictive properties are juxtaposed with portraits of machismo and violence in tango venues old and new to illustrate tango's emotional depth and psychological challenges, while also pointing to questions surrounding the “newness” of nuevo. Highlighting the tensions between evolution and preservation in the survival of cultural phenomena, the book attends to the intersection of culture, economics, and globalization in contemporary tango, where modern yearnings for authentic experience, tourism and heritage programs that commodify and politicize culture, and contemporary efforts to push the boundaries of tango, meet. Throughout, individual voices speak to the romance of tradition and the enduring significance of place in a globalized era. The result is a moving exploration of the continued transformations of a beloved cultural tradition.Less
This book examines a controversial topic that has yet to be addressed in the literature on Argentine tango, the most recent incarnation of tango nuevo (new tango) dance. Alternately attributed to acrobatic moves, disrespectful kids, electronic music, the influx of foreign bodies and cash into Buenos Aires, and increasing globalization of the contemporary tango community/industry, nuevo and the debates surrounding it illustrate the complexity of cultural politics today. Surveying Argentine and tango history, the book underscores the role of the imagination in the dance's evolution, as well as the presence of elements associated with nuevo-fusion, innovation, and foreign influence-from its origins over a century ago. Testaments of the dance's healing and addictive properties are juxtaposed with portraits of machismo and violence in tango venues old and new to illustrate tango's emotional depth and psychological challenges, while also pointing to questions surrounding the “newness” of nuevo. Highlighting the tensions between evolution and preservation in the survival of cultural phenomena, the book attends to the intersection of culture, economics, and globalization in contemporary tango, where modern yearnings for authentic experience, tourism and heritage programs that commodify and politicize culture, and contemporary efforts to push the boundaries of tango, meet. Throughout, individual voices speak to the romance of tradition and the enduring significance of place in a globalized era. The result is a moving exploration of the continued transformations of a beloved cultural tradition.
Lindsay Ehrisman
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- January 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780197265680
- eISBN:
- 9780191771910
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- British Academy
- DOI:
- 10.5871/bacad/9780197265680.003.0013
- Subject:
- Anthropology, African Cultural Anthropology
This chapter explores the origins of contemporary homophobic discourse in Uganda. It argues that hegemonic claims of an exclusively heterosexual tradition in Uganda have been intimately connected to ...
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This chapter explores the origins of contemporary homophobic discourse in Uganda. It argues that hegemonic claims of an exclusively heterosexual tradition in Uganda have been intimately connected to misguided versions of the past, particularly surrounding the infamous 1886 executions of Baganda royal pages ordered by kabaka (king) Mwanga. This chapter examines the ways in which British missionaries, beginning in the late nineteenth century, codified or silenced male-male sexual activity in the missionary record, and how those silences were subsequently reproduced by the first generation of Ganda Christian elite in their early written histories. By excavating the discursive links between the 1886 executions and homophobic rhetoric in Uganda today, this chapter seeks to deconstruct a particular set of historical assumptions about ‘traditional’ Ganda sexuality, and contextualise those assumptions within a specific transnational, historical process, which gave the assumptions power.Less
This chapter explores the origins of contemporary homophobic discourse in Uganda. It argues that hegemonic claims of an exclusively heterosexual tradition in Uganda have been intimately connected to misguided versions of the past, particularly surrounding the infamous 1886 executions of Baganda royal pages ordered by kabaka (king) Mwanga. This chapter examines the ways in which British missionaries, beginning in the late nineteenth century, codified or silenced male-male sexual activity in the missionary record, and how those silences were subsequently reproduced by the first generation of Ganda Christian elite in their early written histories. By excavating the discursive links between the 1886 executions and homophobic rhetoric in Uganda today, this chapter seeks to deconstruct a particular set of historical assumptions about ‘traditional’ Ganda sexuality, and contextualise those assumptions within a specific transnational, historical process, which gave the assumptions power.
James L. Heft and Una M. Cadegan (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- December 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780190280031
- eISBN:
- 9780190280062
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190280031.001.0001
- Subject:
- Religion, Religion and Society
This book contains chapters covering theology, history, law, and media studies of religion about the current situation and potential of Catholic intellectual life. Most of the chapters originated as ...
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This book contains chapters covering theology, history, law, and media studies of religion about the current situation and potential of Catholic intellectual life. Most of the chapters originated as presentations in a September 2013 conference but have been expanded and edited for this book. Their organizing idea is that Catholic intellectual work always occurs “in the lógos of love,” as described by Pope Benedict XVI in his 2009 encyclical, Caritas in Veritate. This description of truth opening and uniting minds offers rich possibilities for thinking about contemporary intellectual life. Topics include the place of Catholic intellectual tradition in professional education and in the secular university; emerging understandings of the role of women, especially in the study of gender and sexuality, but in many other areas as well; the relationship between the United States and the global church; and the role of the media in depicting Catholicism and in transforming what is necessary in handing on a tradition.Less
This book contains chapters covering theology, history, law, and media studies of religion about the current situation and potential of Catholic intellectual life. Most of the chapters originated as presentations in a September 2013 conference but have been expanded and edited for this book. Their organizing idea is that Catholic intellectual work always occurs “in the lógos of love,” as described by Pope Benedict XVI in his 2009 encyclical, Caritas in Veritate. This description of truth opening and uniting minds offers rich possibilities for thinking about contemporary intellectual life. Topics include the place of Catholic intellectual tradition in professional education and in the secular university; emerging understandings of the role of women, especially in the study of gender and sexuality, but in many other areas as well; the relationship between the United States and the global church; and the role of the media in depicting Catholicism and in transforming what is necessary in handing on a tradition.
Angelique V. Nixon
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- May 2017
- ISBN:
- 9781628462180
- eISBN:
- 9781626746039
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
- DOI:
- 10.14325/mississippi/9781628462180.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, World Literature
Resisting Paradise asserts the importance of both tourism and diaspora in shaping Caribbean cultural and sexual identity. It examines Caribbean cultural producers who contend with the region’s ...
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Resisting Paradise asserts the importance of both tourism and diaspora in shaping Caribbean cultural and sexual identity. It examines Caribbean cultural producers who contend with the region’s overdependence on the tourist industry and address the many ways that tourism continues the legacy of colonialism. The book explores the relationship between culture and sex within the production of paradise and investigates the ways in which Caribbean writers, artists, activists, and other cultural producers respond to and powerfully resist this production. Forms of resistance include critiquing exploitation, challenging dominant narratives of history, exposing tourism’s influence on cultural and sexual identity in the Caribbean and its diaspora, and offering alternative models of tourism and travel. Resisting Paradise offers an intriguing emphasis on Caribbean and Caribbean diaspora subjects as travelers and as cultural workers contributing to alternative and resistant understandings of tourism in the Caribbean. Through a unique multi-disciplinary approach to comparative literary analysis, interview material, and participant observation, Angelique V. Nixon analyzes the ways Caribbean cultural producers are taking control of representation and sustaining subjectivity. While focused mainly on the Anglophone Caribbean, the study covers a range of geographical territories including Antigua, The Bahamas, Grenada, Haiti, Jamaica, and Trinidad and Tobago. Overall, the book utilizes a transnational feminist postcolonial framework in order to theorize “resisting paradise” and the sexual-cultural politics of tourism. This research posits an intervention within tourism and diaspora studies by making gender and sexuality the center of inquiry and analysis.Less
Resisting Paradise asserts the importance of both tourism and diaspora in shaping Caribbean cultural and sexual identity. It examines Caribbean cultural producers who contend with the region’s overdependence on the tourist industry and address the many ways that tourism continues the legacy of colonialism. The book explores the relationship between culture and sex within the production of paradise and investigates the ways in which Caribbean writers, artists, activists, and other cultural producers respond to and powerfully resist this production. Forms of resistance include critiquing exploitation, challenging dominant narratives of history, exposing tourism’s influence on cultural and sexual identity in the Caribbean and its diaspora, and offering alternative models of tourism and travel. Resisting Paradise offers an intriguing emphasis on Caribbean and Caribbean diaspora subjects as travelers and as cultural workers contributing to alternative and resistant understandings of tourism in the Caribbean. Through a unique multi-disciplinary approach to comparative literary analysis, interview material, and participant observation, Angelique V. Nixon analyzes the ways Caribbean cultural producers are taking control of representation and sustaining subjectivity. While focused mainly on the Anglophone Caribbean, the study covers a range of geographical territories including Antigua, The Bahamas, Grenada, Haiti, Jamaica, and Trinidad and Tobago. Overall, the book utilizes a transnational feminist postcolonial framework in order to theorize “resisting paradise” and the sexual-cultural politics of tourism. This research posits an intervention within tourism and diaspora studies by making gender and sexuality the center of inquiry and analysis.
Benjamin A. Cowan
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- September 2016
- ISBN:
- 9781469627502
- eISBN:
- 9781469627526
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469627502.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, Latin American History
This book argues that Cold War struggles against “subversion” must be understood in cultural terms, as a reaction to the consequences—both real and perceived—of modernization. Inscribing Brazil’s ...
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This book argues that Cold War struggles against “subversion” must be understood in cultural terms, as a reaction to the consequences—both real and perceived—of modernization. Inscribing Brazil’s Cold War military rulers and their supporters into a decades-long trajectory of right-wing activism and ideology, and locating them in a transnational network of right-wing cultural warriors, the book demonstrates that anti-modern moral panic animated powerful, hard-line elements of Brazil’s countersubversive dictatorship (1964-1985). This moral panic conflated communist subversion with the accoutrement of modernity, and coalesced around the crucial nodes of gender and sexuality, particularly in relation to “modern” youth, women, and mass media. Transformations in these realms were anathema to the Right, who echoed the anxieties of generations past, pathologizing and sexualizing these phenomena, and identifying in them a “crisis of modernity” and of communist subversion. Hence the Cold War became more than a military struggle against rural guerrillas and urban terrorists; from the perspective of key activists and technocrats, the battle must be waged across sexual and bodily practice, clothing, music, art, mass media, and gender. Addressing historiographical neglect of the Right in Brazil and beyond, the book culturally historicizes the Western Cold War in a transnational sense by uncovering Atlantic networks of right-wing activism that validated anti-modern and anticommunist anxieties. These networks included Brazilian, European, and North Atlantic anticommunists, from the famous to those whose stars waned after the Cold War.Less
This book argues that Cold War struggles against “subversion” must be understood in cultural terms, as a reaction to the consequences—both real and perceived—of modernization. Inscribing Brazil’s Cold War military rulers and their supporters into a decades-long trajectory of right-wing activism and ideology, and locating them in a transnational network of right-wing cultural warriors, the book demonstrates that anti-modern moral panic animated powerful, hard-line elements of Brazil’s countersubversive dictatorship (1964-1985). This moral panic conflated communist subversion with the accoutrement of modernity, and coalesced around the crucial nodes of gender and sexuality, particularly in relation to “modern” youth, women, and mass media. Transformations in these realms were anathema to the Right, who echoed the anxieties of generations past, pathologizing and sexualizing these phenomena, and identifying in them a “crisis of modernity” and of communist subversion. Hence the Cold War became more than a military struggle against rural guerrillas and urban terrorists; from the perspective of key activists and technocrats, the battle must be waged across sexual and bodily practice, clothing, music, art, mass media, and gender. Addressing historiographical neglect of the Right in Brazil and beyond, the book culturally historicizes the Western Cold War in a transnational sense by uncovering Atlantic networks of right-wing activism that validated anti-modern and anticommunist anxieties. These networks included Brazilian, European, and North Atlantic anticommunists, from the famous to those whose stars waned after the Cold War.
Neil Blain and David Hutchison
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780748627998
- eISBN:
- 9780748671205
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748627998.003.0012
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Media Studies
The chapter opens by noting two key aspects of the construction of Scottish identity which are problematic for gender representation. These are defined as a return to a static past, and the filmic ...
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The chapter opens by noting two key aspects of the construction of Scottish identity which are problematic for gender representation. These are defined as a return to a static past, and the filmic and wider emphasis on masculinity in defining a national identity. The figuring of Scotland as psychic as well as physical space is emphasized and the chapter proceeds to examine patterns of representing gendered identity in Scotland. This includes analysis of gendered and sexualized elements in the rendition of Scotland's past, not least in the Highlands, in cinema; and of the Scottish version of a general theme of ‘masculinity in crisis’. Television drama and sitcom as well as theatre films are referenced in consideration of this theme, with extended consideration of the work of Bill Douglas, Peter McDougall and Peter Mullan, among others. Landscape and peripherality is discussed with a focus on Trier's Breaking the Waves, and there also follows consideration of urban reconfiguration in film.Less
The chapter opens by noting two key aspects of the construction of Scottish identity which are problematic for gender representation. These are defined as a return to a static past, and the filmic and wider emphasis on masculinity in defining a national identity. The figuring of Scotland as psychic as well as physical space is emphasized and the chapter proceeds to examine patterns of representing gendered identity in Scotland. This includes analysis of gendered and sexualized elements in the rendition of Scotland's past, not least in the Highlands, in cinema; and of the Scottish version of a general theme of ‘masculinity in crisis’. Television drama and sitcom as well as theatre films are referenced in consideration of this theme, with extended consideration of the work of Bill Douglas, Peter McDougall and Peter Mullan, among others. Landscape and peripherality is discussed with a focus on Trier's Breaking the Waves, and there also follows consideration of urban reconfiguration in film.
Ward Keeler
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- May 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780824865948
- eISBN:
- 9780824876944
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Hawai'i Press
- DOI:
- 10.21313/hawaii/9780824865948.003.0010
- Subject:
- Religion, Buddhism
Men’s superior status within Burmese society places women, nuns, and trans women in positions of subordinate status. Debate about women’s “relatively high standing” in Burmese society is best ...
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Men’s superior status within Burmese society places women, nuns, and trans women in positions of subordinate status. Debate about women’s “relatively high standing” in Burmese society is best resolved by considering the hierarchical understandings that make subordination appropriate rather than oppressive in the views of many Burmese women. Women’s subordination stems from and allows for their greater readiness to forge attachments. Nuns arouse ambivalent reactions because as religious their choosing autonomy makes sense but as women it does not. Trans women are disdained because they give up the greater prestige and autonomy their biological sex makes readily available to them. But they are tolerated because they respect gender categories and behave in accordance with their feminine, thus subordinate, status.Less
Men’s superior status within Burmese society places women, nuns, and trans women in positions of subordinate status. Debate about women’s “relatively high standing” in Burmese society is best resolved by considering the hierarchical understandings that make subordination appropriate rather than oppressive in the views of many Burmese women. Women’s subordination stems from and allows for their greater readiness to forge attachments. Nuns arouse ambivalent reactions because as religious their choosing autonomy makes sense but as women it does not. Trans women are disdained because they give up the greater prestige and autonomy their biological sex makes readily available to them. But they are tolerated because they respect gender categories and behave in accordance with their feminine, thus subordinate, status.
Paola Bacchetta
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- February 2020
- ISBN:
- 9780190078171
- eISBN:
- 9780190099589
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780190078171.003.0021
- Subject:
- Political Science, Asian Politics
This chapter describes Hindu nationalist examples of national and transnational strategies of social inclusion and exclusion that mobilize gender and sexuality, including strategies that valorize ...
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This chapter describes Hindu nationalist examples of national and transnational strategies of social inclusion and exclusion that mobilize gender and sexuality, including strategies that valorize some queer categories and de-valorize others, while also targeting the Hindu nation’s Others (such as Muslims) through complex social operations that draw upon, in part, colonial queerphobic legacies. This chapter contributes to the study of queer sexualities in postcolonial nationalisms through focusing on Hindu nationalism, discussing four social operations that organize the present: xenophobic queerphobia; queerphobic xenophobia, queerphilic idealization, and selective queer national-normativization. Through this work, Bacchetta seeks to complicate the current binary in which queer acceptance is already imagined as always a good thing and is systematically associated with the left, while queer repression is assigned to the right, toward creating and converging in struggles that enrich and support practices of freedom for all.Less
This chapter describes Hindu nationalist examples of national and transnational strategies of social inclusion and exclusion that mobilize gender and sexuality, including strategies that valorize some queer categories and de-valorize others, while also targeting the Hindu nation’s Others (such as Muslims) through complex social operations that draw upon, in part, colonial queerphobic legacies. This chapter contributes to the study of queer sexualities in postcolonial nationalisms through focusing on Hindu nationalism, discussing four social operations that organize the present: xenophobic queerphobia; queerphobic xenophobia, queerphilic idealization, and selective queer national-normativization. Through this work, Bacchetta seeks to complicate the current binary in which queer acceptance is already imagined as always a good thing and is systematically associated with the left, while queer repression is assigned to the right, toward creating and converging in struggles that enrich and support practices of freedom for all.
Dong Hoon Kim
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- January 2018
- ISBN:
- 9781474421805
- eISBN:
- 9781474434782
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474421805.003.0006
- Subject:
- Film, Television and Radio, Film
The interrogation of film spectatorship and reception continues in the last chapter, expanding the scope of the inquiry. While the colonial experience was one of many historical factors that affected ...
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The interrogation of film spectatorship and reception continues in the last chapter, expanding the scope of the inquiry. While the colonial experience was one of many historical factors that affected Korea’s modern experiences, Korea’s colonialized status was not the sole force that directed the development of Joseon film culture. Preoccupied with the cinema’s relation to the subjects of colonial exploitation, nationalism, and national identity, however, few scholars acknowledge that colonial film-viewing was a much more compound activity marked by a range of political, cultural, and historical components that defined Korea’s overall modern experiences. In particular, in standard film history, the fascination film fans had with the cinema has yet to find its place. However, the novelty of the cinema, the pleasure of film-viewing, and the liberating effect the cinema could offer were crucial in generating varied social perceptions and debates surrounding the prominent modern culture. This chapter, therefore, explores the manner in which film spectatorship mediated and represented Korea’s complex modern experiences, focusing primarily on the association between the cinema and politics in gender and sexuality, the issue subjected to the most intense form of social discussions in relation to movie-going throughout the colonial period.Less
The interrogation of film spectatorship and reception continues in the last chapter, expanding the scope of the inquiry. While the colonial experience was one of many historical factors that affected Korea’s modern experiences, Korea’s colonialized status was not the sole force that directed the development of Joseon film culture. Preoccupied with the cinema’s relation to the subjects of colonial exploitation, nationalism, and national identity, however, few scholars acknowledge that colonial film-viewing was a much more compound activity marked by a range of political, cultural, and historical components that defined Korea’s overall modern experiences. In particular, in standard film history, the fascination film fans had with the cinema has yet to find its place. However, the novelty of the cinema, the pleasure of film-viewing, and the liberating effect the cinema could offer were crucial in generating varied social perceptions and debates surrounding the prominent modern culture. This chapter, therefore, explores the manner in which film spectatorship mediated and represented Korea’s complex modern experiences, focusing primarily on the association between the cinema and politics in gender and sexuality, the issue subjected to the most intense form of social discussions in relation to movie-going throughout the colonial period.
Elizabeth Pérez
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- September 2016
- ISBN:
- 9781479861613
- eISBN:
- 9781479803217
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9781479861613.001.0001
- Subject:
- Religion, World Religions
This book argues that cooking and talking are at the very quick of Black Atlantic religions. It shows that tasks like butchering, although manual, are far from menial, and “idle chatter” does a ...
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This book argues that cooking and talking are at the very quick of Black Atlantic religions. It shows that tasks like butchering, although manual, are far from menial, and “idle chatter” does a surprising amount of heavy lifting in Afro-Diasporic houses of worship. Its thesis is that such activities get under the skin of practitioners, equipping them with the repertoire of skills, dispositions, and habits necessary for religious norms to be internalized, then reproduced. The book maintains that to understand Black Atlantic religions, one must grasp not only their ethics and aesthetics but also their synaesthetics—the somatic and emotional dimensions of everyday experience. The book centers on two commonplace yet transformative kinds of kitchen work and talk: preparation of food for the gods and narration of stories about ritual experience. These undertakings are best described as “micropractices.” Micropractices like plucking chickens and trading anecdotes not only organize space, time, and intensities of affect for participants; they also progressively implicate their performers in the material and conceptual worlds of religious authorities.Indeed, the book demonstrates that individuals are transformed into religious subjects through their enactment of micropractices at the interstices of better-known rituals. Furthermore, in seeking to provide a more accurate understanding of women and gay men—particularly those deemed effeminate—as social actors within Afro-Diasporic houses of worship, it reconceptualizes the role of race, gender, and sexuality in religious subjectivity.Less
This book argues that cooking and talking are at the very quick of Black Atlantic religions. It shows that tasks like butchering, although manual, are far from menial, and “idle chatter” does a surprising amount of heavy lifting in Afro-Diasporic houses of worship. Its thesis is that such activities get under the skin of practitioners, equipping them with the repertoire of skills, dispositions, and habits necessary for religious norms to be internalized, then reproduced. The book maintains that to understand Black Atlantic religions, one must grasp not only their ethics and aesthetics but also their synaesthetics—the somatic and emotional dimensions of everyday experience. The book centers on two commonplace yet transformative kinds of kitchen work and talk: preparation of food for the gods and narration of stories about ritual experience. These undertakings are best described as “micropractices.” Micropractices like plucking chickens and trading anecdotes not only organize space, time, and intensities of affect for participants; they also progressively implicate their performers in the material and conceptual worlds of religious authorities.Indeed, the book demonstrates that individuals are transformed into religious subjects through their enactment of micropractices at the interstices of better-known rituals. Furthermore, in seeking to provide a more accurate understanding of women and gay men—particularly those deemed effeminate—as social actors within Afro-Diasporic houses of worship, it reconceptualizes the role of race, gender, and sexuality in religious subjectivity.
Zarena Aslami
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780823241996
- eISBN:
- 9780823242030
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fordham/9780823241996.003.0006
- Subject:
- Literature, European Literature
Sarah Grand's landmark New Woman novel The Heavenly Twins attacked the social and political structures that endangered middle-class women's physical health toward the end of the nineteenth century. ...
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Sarah Grand's landmark New Woman novel The Heavenly Twins attacked the social and political structures that endangered middle-class women's physical health toward the end of the nineteenth century. This chapter shows how the novel's explicit desire to be political accounts for the many contradictions that it has generated for contemporary and recent readers. These contradictions bring to the surface the complexity of late Victorian liberalism: the very claim for freedom can constrain the liberal subject. The more the liberal subject fights to be “free,” the more she upholds the structures that subordinate her. Grand figures the relationship between the injured citizen and the healing state as a sexual one between a failed feminist, Evadne, and a physician who is also a baronet, Dr. Galbraith. Galbraith represents the ideal state in Grand's text. A professional expert who is also landed, he combines two kinds of disinterest and virtue. But Grand also expresses reservations about the kind of power such a state might wield. Ultimately, political hopelessness and sexual pleasure, elsewhere excised by the bourgeois moral economy of the novel, converge at the end of The Heavenly Twins in the spectacle of the heroine's hysterical submission to and withholding from the hero.Less
Sarah Grand's landmark New Woman novel The Heavenly Twins attacked the social and political structures that endangered middle-class women's physical health toward the end of the nineteenth century. This chapter shows how the novel's explicit desire to be political accounts for the many contradictions that it has generated for contemporary and recent readers. These contradictions bring to the surface the complexity of late Victorian liberalism: the very claim for freedom can constrain the liberal subject. The more the liberal subject fights to be “free,” the more she upholds the structures that subordinate her. Grand figures the relationship between the injured citizen and the healing state as a sexual one between a failed feminist, Evadne, and a physician who is also a baronet, Dr. Galbraith. Galbraith represents the ideal state in Grand's text. A professional expert who is also landed, he combines two kinds of disinterest and virtue. But Grand also expresses reservations about the kind of power such a state might wield. Ultimately, political hopelessness and sexual pleasure, elsewhere excised by the bourgeois moral economy of the novel, converge at the end of The Heavenly Twins in the spectacle of the heroine's hysterical submission to and withholding from the hero.
Annette Trefzer
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- May 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781496814531
- eISBN:
- 9781496814579
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
- DOI:
- 10.14325/mississippi/9781496814531.003.0017
- Subject:
- Literature, American, 20th Century Literature
This essay suggests how literary theory can help students confront the textual complexity and subtlety of Welty’s short stories, and how the stories, in turn, can offer a range of questions and ...
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This essay suggests how literary theory can help students confront the textual complexity and subtlety of Welty’s short stories, and how the stories, in turn, can offer a range of questions and problems for reexamination as they highlight the blind spots of various theoretical “lenses.” Students begin with the formalist method of “close reading” and Welty’s “A Piece of News,” followed by theories of gender and sexuality paired with “A Curtain of Green,” and “Petrified Man” and end up with disability studies as illustrated in Welty’s first short story collection. The essay shows with examples from Welty’s work the intersections where theory meets practical criticism and where fiction articulates positions that help students understand theory in turn.Less
This essay suggests how literary theory can help students confront the textual complexity and subtlety of Welty’s short stories, and how the stories, in turn, can offer a range of questions and problems for reexamination as they highlight the blind spots of various theoretical “lenses.” Students begin with the formalist method of “close reading” and Welty’s “A Piece of News,” followed by theories of gender and sexuality paired with “A Curtain of Green,” and “Petrified Man” and end up with disability studies as illustrated in Welty’s first short story collection. The essay shows with examples from Welty’s work the intersections where theory meets practical criticism and where fiction articulates positions that help students understand theory in turn.
Ben Tran
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- September 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780823273133
- eISBN:
- 9780823273188
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fordham/9780823273133.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, World Literature
Post-Mandarin: Masculinity and Aesthetic Modernity in Colonial Vietnam redefines global modernism in terms of realism. The monograph challenges some of the central assumptions about the literary ...
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Post-Mandarin: Masculinity and Aesthetic Modernity in Colonial Vietnam redefines global modernism in terms of realism. The monograph challenges some of the central assumptions about the literary aesthetics of colonial modernity. The book has two interlocking arguments. First, it underscores the radical transformation of Vietnam’s literary field from a 1000-year-old Chinese-influenced mandarin system to the supply-and-demand market of 20th-century print culture—linguistically, from Examination Chinese to the Vietnamese romanized alphabet of quốc ngữ. Second, it shows that as much as this transformation was an intellectual disruption, it was equally a gendered historical upheaval. The book demonstrates how the dissolution of the all-male mandarinate and the simultaneous emergence of a female reading public underwrote the significant realist aesthetics of Vietnamese modernity. The project employs the term “post-mandarin” to describe how native intellectuals educated in the French baccalaureate system adopted European fields of knowledge, a new romanized writing script, and print media—all of which were foreign and illegible to their fathers. Post-mandarin intellectuals mediated their critique of colonial modernity through the various subjectivities of modern women, portraying these women as transgressive romantics, sex workers catering to European men, patients in colonial dispensaries, and readers of novels. The book’s focus on sexuality reveals how masculine anxiety undercut the purportedly objective genre of journalistic reportage, how Vietnam’s modernist turn was a turn toward literary realism, and how Vietnamese socialist realism derived from a queer internationalism.Less
Post-Mandarin: Masculinity and Aesthetic Modernity in Colonial Vietnam redefines global modernism in terms of realism. The monograph challenges some of the central assumptions about the literary aesthetics of colonial modernity. The book has two interlocking arguments. First, it underscores the radical transformation of Vietnam’s literary field from a 1000-year-old Chinese-influenced mandarin system to the supply-and-demand market of 20th-century print culture—linguistically, from Examination Chinese to the Vietnamese romanized alphabet of quốc ngữ. Second, it shows that as much as this transformation was an intellectual disruption, it was equally a gendered historical upheaval. The book demonstrates how the dissolution of the all-male mandarinate and the simultaneous emergence of a female reading public underwrote the significant realist aesthetics of Vietnamese modernity. The project employs the term “post-mandarin” to describe how native intellectuals educated in the French baccalaureate system adopted European fields of knowledge, a new romanized writing script, and print media—all of which were foreign and illegible to their fathers. Post-mandarin intellectuals mediated their critique of colonial modernity through the various subjectivities of modern women, portraying these women as transgressive romantics, sex workers catering to European men, patients in colonial dispensaries, and readers of novels. The book’s focus on sexuality reveals how masculine anxiety undercut the purportedly objective genre of journalistic reportage, how Vietnam’s modernist turn was a turn toward literary realism, and how Vietnamese socialist realism derived from a queer internationalism.
