Linda LeMoncheck
- Published in print:
- 1997
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780195105568
- eISBN:
- 9780199852949
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195105568.003.0004
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Feminist Philosophy
The “loose women” described in this book pose a threat to patriarchy by challenging the constraints of monogamy imposed on women by an androcentric heterosexuality. However, women in search of sexual ...
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The “loose women” described in this book pose a threat to patriarchy by challenging the constraints of monogamy imposed on women by an androcentric heterosexuality. However, women in search of sexual liberation may also challenge patriarchal appropriations of women's sexuality by challenging traditional heterosexuality's dominance over what constitutes “normal” sex. Along these lines, a feminist reclamation of sex for women would mean redefining and rediscovering so-called deviant or perverted sex as a way to subvert the patriarchal subordination of women that “normal” heterosexuality reinforces. This chapter uses the dialectical and contextual perspective of the “view from somewhere different” to negotiate the tensions between conflicting feminist perspectives with respect to sexual perversion. The chapter proposes to replace expressions such as “sexual perversion” and “sexual norm” with the less evaluatively charged expression of “sexual difference.” It then describes and evaluates the debate over three types of sexual difference of particular concern to both cultural feminists and sex radical feminists: man/boy love, butch/femme sexual role-playing, and lesbian sadomasochism.Less
The “loose women” described in this book pose a threat to patriarchy by challenging the constraints of monogamy imposed on women by an androcentric heterosexuality. However, women in search of sexual liberation may also challenge patriarchal appropriations of women's sexuality by challenging traditional heterosexuality's dominance over what constitutes “normal” sex. Along these lines, a feminist reclamation of sex for women would mean redefining and rediscovering so-called deviant or perverted sex as a way to subvert the patriarchal subordination of women that “normal” heterosexuality reinforces. This chapter uses the dialectical and contextual perspective of the “view from somewhere different” to negotiate the tensions between conflicting feminist perspectives with respect to sexual perversion. The chapter proposes to replace expressions such as “sexual perversion” and “sexual norm” with the less evaluatively charged expression of “sexual difference.” It then describes and evaluates the debate over three types of sexual difference of particular concern to both cultural feminists and sex radical feminists: man/boy love, butch/femme sexual role-playing, and lesbian sadomasochism.
Otto F. Kernberg
- Published in print:
- 2004
- Published Online:
- October 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780300101805
- eISBN:
- 9780300128383
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- DOI:
- 10.12987/yale/9780300101805.003.0005
- Subject:
- Psychology, Health Psychology
This chapter first considers the problem of sexual “normality.” It then discusses the clinical and psychoanalytic criteria of normality; the definition and psychodynamics of perversion; perversion ...
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This chapter first considers the problem of sexual “normality.” It then discusses the clinical and psychoanalytic criteria of normality; the definition and psychodynamics of perversion; perversion and perversity; the diagnostic evaluation of patients with sexual perversions; and psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy for the perversions.Less
This chapter first considers the problem of sexual “normality.” It then discusses the clinical and psychoanalytic criteria of normality; the definition and psychodynamics of perversion; perversion and perversity; the diagnostic evaluation of patients with sexual perversions; and psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy for the perversions.
Jennifer Radden (ed.)
- Published in print:
- 2004
- Published Online:
- January 2009
- ISBN:
- 9780195149531
- eISBN:
- 9780199870943
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195149531.003.0005
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Philosophy of Mind
This chapter explores the concept of paraphilia as defined in the third and current fourth edition of the handbook of the American Psychiatric Association—the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of ...
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This chapter explores the concept of paraphilia as defined in the third and current fourth edition of the handbook of the American Psychiatric Association—the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV). DSM-IV has excluded homosexual orientation from the sexual mental disorders, and eschewed the pejorative “perversion” in favor of the clinical “paraphilia” in naming other sexualities. It is argued that DSM-IV embodies cultural biases “masquerading” as scientific medical truth, but also expresses a more liberal view of human sexuality.Less
This chapter explores the concept of paraphilia as defined in the third and current fourth edition of the handbook of the American Psychiatric Association—the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV). DSM-IV has excluded homosexual orientation from the sexual mental disorders, and eschewed the pejorative “perversion” in favor of the clinical “paraphilia” in naming other sexualities. It is argued that DSM-IV embodies cultural biases “masquerading” as scientific medical truth, but also expresses a more liberal view of human sexuality.
CATHERINE JAGOE
- Published in print:
- 1996
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198158868
- eISBN:
- 9780191673399
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198158868.003.0009
- Subject:
- Literature, European Literature, 19th-century and Victorian Literature
The notion of inevitable decline or degeneration produced an aesthetic movement that revolved around a group of ‘decadent’ or Symbolist writers and painters of the late 19th century whose subjects ...
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The notion of inevitable decline or degeneration produced an aesthetic movement that revolved around a group of ‘decadent’ or Symbolist writers and painters of the late 19th century whose subjects and style had a considerable impact on European and American literature. United in their belief that God, morality, love, and nature were shibboleths of a pre-Darwinian age, the decadents were dedicated to maximising the sensations of the moment. Using Charles Baudelaire's Fleurs du mal as a model, they explored the strange terrain of sexual perversions, exoticism, and the occult. Decadents espoused a ‘love of art for art's sake’, unimpeded by any extra-aesthetic considerations. While their aesthetic theory is clearly alien to Benito Pérez Galdós's outlook, which is deeply concerned with morality and very far from the ‘art for art's sake’ of the aesthetes, some of their subject-matter does find its way into Ángel Guerra, in nuanced form.Less
The notion of inevitable decline or degeneration produced an aesthetic movement that revolved around a group of ‘decadent’ or Symbolist writers and painters of the late 19th century whose subjects and style had a considerable impact on European and American literature. United in their belief that God, morality, love, and nature were shibboleths of a pre-Darwinian age, the decadents were dedicated to maximising the sensations of the moment. Using Charles Baudelaire's Fleurs du mal as a model, they explored the strange terrain of sexual perversions, exoticism, and the occult. Decadents espoused a ‘love of art for art's sake’, unimpeded by any extra-aesthetic considerations. While their aesthetic theory is clearly alien to Benito Pérez Galdós's outlook, which is deeply concerned with morality and very far from the ‘art for art's sake’ of the aesthetes, some of their subject-matter does find its way into Ángel Guerra, in nuanced form.
David. Cressy
- Published in print:
- 1999
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198207818
- eISBN:
- 9780191677809
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198207818.003.0016
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Early Modern History, Cultural History
This chapter examines one of the most startling phenomena of the English revolution, the appearance, or alleged appearance, of a sect of revolutionary fundamentalist nudists. Stories about this group ...
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This chapter examines one of the most startling phenomena of the English revolution, the appearance, or alleged appearance, of a sect of revolutionary fundamentalist nudists. Stories about this group appeared in the popular press in 1641, with reports of their sexual and religious perversions. Other authors discussed their antecedents in ancient Christianity, medieval heresy, and the more recent radical reformation. Adamite elements appeared among the Ranters and Quakers of the early 1650s. Questions arise not only about the truth of the matter, but also about the moral, political, and religious climate in which the Adamite phenomenon was discussed.Less
This chapter examines one of the most startling phenomena of the English revolution, the appearance, or alleged appearance, of a sect of revolutionary fundamentalist nudists. Stories about this group appeared in the popular press in 1641, with reports of their sexual and religious perversions. Other authors discussed their antecedents in ancient Christianity, medieval heresy, and the more recent radical reformation. Adamite elements appeared among the Ranters and Quakers of the early 1650s. Questions arise not only about the truth of the matter, but also about the moral, political, and religious climate in which the Adamite phenomenon was discussed.
