Niels Teunis and Gilbert Herdt
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- May 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780520246140
- eISBN:
- 9780520939141
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520246140.003.0001
- Subject:
- Anthropology, Anthropology, Global
Sexual inequality, in its various forms and consequences, manifested in various objective and subjective ways, is a vogue in the United States. Scarcity of social-legal protection is rivaled by that ...
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Sexual inequality, in its various forms and consequences, manifested in various objective and subjective ways, is a vogue in the United States. Scarcity of social-legal protection is rivaled by that of knowledge of sexual health, and sexual rights. Research in this field has been fraught with stumbling blocks arising out of historical barriers. Moreover, the role of the social scientist, including her sexual subjectivity and positionality, has largely been ignored in mainstream study. Such tendencies are constitutive of structural violence. Considerations of this paradigm have led to the practice of participatory research, and the identification of sexual injustice as pre or post social inequality. This text reflects cross-disciplinary perspectives converging on the common treatment of social inequality as the lens of viewing sexual injustice.Less
Sexual inequality, in its various forms and consequences, manifested in various objective and subjective ways, is a vogue in the United States. Scarcity of social-legal protection is rivaled by that of knowledge of sexual health, and sexual rights. Research in this field has been fraught with stumbling blocks arising out of historical barriers. Moreover, the role of the social scientist, including her sexual subjectivity and positionality, has largely been ignored in mainstream study. Such tendencies are constitutive of structural violence. Considerations of this paradigm have led to the practice of participatory research, and the identification of sexual injustice as pre or post social inequality. This text reflects cross-disciplinary perspectives converging on the common treatment of social inequality as the lens of viewing sexual injustice.
Leisa D. Meyer
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- April 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780252040399
- eISBN:
- 9780252098819
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
- DOI:
- 10.5406/illinois/9780252040399.003.0011
- Subject:
- Sociology, Race and Ethnicity
This chapter analyzes the ongoing negotiations among individuals and within groups that appear—are written and crafted and responded to—in the pages of black print popular culture magazines during ...
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This chapter analyzes the ongoing negotiations among individuals and within groups that appear—are written and crafted and responded to—in the pages of black print popular culture magazines during the period immediately following World War II. Through this interrogation, the chapter reveals the complex and diverse sexual subjectivities (or potential subjectivities) of African American women—as these subjectivities are articulated, debated, weighed, explored, reconfigured, and at times rejected. What becomes clear through these publications is that while there is an explicit and often direct engagement with racialist white normative cultural presumptions (stereotypes) concerning African American sexuality, alternative sexual subjectivities are also explicitly suggested, discussed, and debated within these pages.Less
This chapter analyzes the ongoing negotiations among individuals and within groups that appear—are written and crafted and responded to—in the pages of black print popular culture magazines during the period immediately following World War II. Through this interrogation, the chapter reveals the complex and diverse sexual subjectivities (or potential subjectivities) of African American women—as these subjectivities are articulated, debated, weighed, explored, reconfigured, and at times rejected. What becomes clear through these publications is that while there is an explicit and often direct engagement with racialist white normative cultural presumptions (stereotypes) concerning African American sexuality, alternative sexual subjectivities are also explicitly suggested, discussed, and debated within these pages.
Ann-Elise Lewallen
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- November 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780824852801
- eISBN:
- 9780824868666
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Hawai'i Press
- DOI:
- 10.21313/hawaii/9780824852801.003.0002
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Asian Studies
Modernist historiography has long bracketed Ezo (present-day Hokkaido) and Okinawa as internal colonies, conventionally dismissing them from discussions of Japan’s imperial project. This historical ...
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Modernist historiography has long bracketed Ezo (present-day Hokkaido) and Okinawa as internal colonies, conventionally dismissing them from discussions of Japan’s imperial project. This historical perspective rationalizes and codifies the narrative that Hokkaido especially is an inherent, inalienable part of Japanese territory. However, this version of history begins to fall apart when we take account of the interrelations between Ainu women and ethnic Japanese men (wajin). The interpellation of Ainu women as objects of sexual desire established the intimate frontiers of Japan’s modernist recasting of Ezo as a distinctly Japanese imperial zone long before its political and administrative incorporation into the Japanese nation-state. The sexual subjectivity of these women in turn provides a different perspective revealing how Japan’s territorial expansion and its nascent imperialism was charted through the terrain of Ainu women’s bodies, and demonstrating how sexual intimacy and sexual violence are corollaries of political and physical power.Less
Modernist historiography has long bracketed Ezo (present-day Hokkaido) and Okinawa as internal colonies, conventionally dismissing them from discussions of Japan’s imperial project. This historical perspective rationalizes and codifies the narrative that Hokkaido especially is an inherent, inalienable part of Japanese territory. However, this version of history begins to fall apart when we take account of the interrelations between Ainu women and ethnic Japanese men (wajin). The interpellation of Ainu women as objects of sexual desire established the intimate frontiers of Japan’s modernist recasting of Ezo as a distinctly Japanese imperial zone long before its political and administrative incorporation into the Japanese nation-state. The sexual subjectivity of these women in turn provides a different perspective revealing how Japan’s territorial expansion and its nascent imperialism was charted through the terrain of Ainu women’s bodies, and demonstrating how sexual intimacy and sexual violence are corollaries of political and physical power.
Margrit Shildrick
- Published in print:
- 2005
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780748634040
- eISBN:
- 9780748652563
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748634040.003.0007
- Subject:
- Philosophy, General
This chapter explores Gilles Deleuze's theory concerning queer corporealities, addressing the question of what it means to be an embodied subject and analysing the complex issue of sexual ...
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This chapter explores Gilles Deleuze's theory concerning queer corporealities, addressing the question of what it means to be an embodied subject and analysing the complex issue of sexual subjectivity. It contends that the widespread western uneasiness in acknowledging or even recognising erotic desire is most clearly mobilised where the form of embodiment itself contests the standards of normative corporeality.Less
This chapter explores Gilles Deleuze's theory concerning queer corporealities, addressing the question of what it means to be an embodied subject and analysing the complex issue of sexual subjectivity. It contends that the widespread western uneasiness in acknowledging or even recognising erotic desire is most clearly mobilised where the form of embodiment itself contests the standards of normative corporeality.
Laura Helen Marks
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- May 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780252042140
- eISBN:
- 9780252050886
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
- DOI:
- 10.5622/illinois/9780252042140.001.0001
- Subject:
- Film, Television and Radio, Film
This book argues that pornographic film relies on a particular "Victorianness" in generating eroticism—a Gothic Victorianness that is monstrous and restrained, repressed but also perverse, static but ...
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This book argues that pornographic film relies on a particular "Victorianness" in generating eroticism—a Gothic Victorianness that is monstrous and restrained, repressed but also perverse, static but also transformative, and preoccupied with gender, sexuality, race, and time. Pornographic films enthusiastically expose the perceived hypocrisy of this Victorianness, rhetorically equating it with mainstream, legitimate culture, as a way of staging pornography’s alleged sexual authenticity and transgressive nature. Through an analysis of porn set during the nineteenth century and porn adaptations of Lewis Carroll’s Alice books, Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray, and Bram Stoker’s Dracula, this book shows how these adaptations expose the implicit pornographic aspects of “legitimate” culture while also revealing the extent to which “high” and “low” genres rely on each other for self-definition. In the process, neo-Victorian pornographies draw on Gothic spaces and icons in order to situate itself as this Gothic other, utilizing the Gothic and the monstrous to craft a transformative, pornographic space. These neo-Victorian Gothic pornographies expose the way the genre as a whole emphasizes, navigates, transgresses, and renegotiates gender, sexuality, and race through the lens of history and legacy.Less
This book argues that pornographic film relies on a particular "Victorianness" in generating eroticism—a Gothic Victorianness that is monstrous and restrained, repressed but also perverse, static but also transformative, and preoccupied with gender, sexuality, race, and time. Pornographic films enthusiastically expose the perceived hypocrisy of this Victorianness, rhetorically equating it with mainstream, legitimate culture, as a way of staging pornography’s alleged sexual authenticity and transgressive nature. Through an analysis of porn set during the nineteenth century and porn adaptations of Lewis Carroll’s Alice books, Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray, and Bram Stoker’s Dracula, this book shows how these adaptations expose the implicit pornographic aspects of “legitimate” culture while also revealing the extent to which “high” and “low” genres rely on each other for self-definition. In the process, neo-Victorian pornographies draw on Gothic spaces and icons in order to situate itself as this Gothic other, utilizing the Gothic and the monstrous to craft a transformative, pornographic space. These neo-Victorian Gothic pornographies expose the way the genre as a whole emphasizes, navigates, transgresses, and renegotiates gender, sexuality, and race through the lens of history and legacy.
Shawna Tang
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- May 2013
- ISBN:
- 9789888139330
- eISBN:
- 9789888180196
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Hong Kong University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5790/hongkong/9789888139330.003.0006
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Asian Studies
The writer examines how Singapore lesbians embody a transnational sexual identity that is ‘a contradictory, complicit and contingent negotiation of the local and global’. She frames her ethnographic ...
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The writer examines how Singapore lesbians embody a transnational sexual identity that is ‘a contradictory, complicit and contingent negotiation of the local and global’. She frames her ethnographic data against transnational feminist sexuality scholarship, and shows how working and middle-class lesbians negotiate the State's heteronormative regulation of sexuality.Less
The writer examines how Singapore lesbians embody a transnational sexual identity that is ‘a contradictory, complicit and contingent negotiation of the local and global’. She frames her ethnographic data against transnational feminist sexuality scholarship, and shows how working and middle-class lesbians negotiate the State's heteronormative regulation of sexuality.
Noor Al-Qasimi
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- March 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780814737309
- eISBN:
- 9780814744680
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9780814737309.003.0016
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Media Studies
This chapter focuses on questions of governmentality and the regulation of queer subjectivities in cyberspace. For the “post-oil” generation in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), the use of social ...
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This chapter focuses on questions of governmentality and the regulation of queer subjectivities in cyberspace. For the “post-oil” generation in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), the use of social networking websites has led to the creation of a transnational pan-Gulfian queer imaginary that unsettles notions of sovereignty and territoriality. Indeed, in recent years, the UAE has witnessed multiple transgressive discourses pertaining to heteronormative structures of sexuality, with cybertechnology serving as a primary platform for the enactments of subaltern sexual subjectivities. However, the question remains to what extent cyberspace displaces the governance of gender that is embedded within the framework of the state's preoccupation with its global image and the preservation of an authentic, regional cultural identity.Less
This chapter focuses on questions of governmentality and the regulation of queer subjectivities in cyberspace. For the “post-oil” generation in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), the use of social networking websites has led to the creation of a transnational pan-Gulfian queer imaginary that unsettles notions of sovereignty and territoriality. Indeed, in recent years, the UAE has witnessed multiple transgressive discourses pertaining to heteronormative structures of sexuality, with cybertechnology serving as a primary platform for the enactments of subaltern sexual subjectivities. However, the question remains to what extent cyberspace displaces the governance of gender that is embedded within the framework of the state's preoccupation with its global image and the preservation of an authentic, regional cultural identity.
