Rethinking sex and gender identities

Offering a captivating exploration of seven-year-old Ludovic Fabre’s struggle against cultural expectations of normative boyhood masculinity, Alain Berliner’s blockbuster Ma Vie en Rose exposes the ways in which current sex and gender systems operate in cinematic representations of nonconforming gender identities. Using transing as our theoretical framework to investigate how gender is assembled and reassembled in and across other social categories such as age, we engage in a close reading of the film with a focus on Ludovic’s gender performance. Our analysis reveals three distinct but interrelated discourses—construction, correction, and narration—as the protagonist and Ludovic’s family and larger social circle attempt to work with, through, and against transgression of normative boyhood masculinity. We conclude by exploring the implications of transing boyhood gender performances.

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Of Masks and Men? Gender, Sex, and Protective Measures during COVID-19

Politics & Gender ◽

10.1017/s1743923x20000616 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 16 (4) ◽

pp. 1052-1062

Author(s):

Dan Cassino ◽

Yasemin Besen-Cassino

Keyword(s):

Gender Identity ◽

Telephone Survey ◽

Face Mask ◽

The United States ◽

Sex And Gender ◽

Gender Identities ◽

Protective Measures ◽

And Gender ◽

The Individual ◽

Masculine Gender

AbstractSince the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States, men have been consistently less likely to report wearing a protective face mask. There are several possible reasons for this difference, including partisanship and gender identity. Using a national live-caller telephone survey that measures gender identity, we show that men's gender identities are strongly related to their views of mask wearing, especially when gender identity is highly salient to the individual. The effects of this interaction of sex and gender are shown to be separate from the effects of partisanship. While partisanship is a significant driver of attitudes about face masks, within partisan groups, men who report “completely” masculine gender identities are very different from their fellow partisans.

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New menstrual terminology in the context of Judith Butler's gender theory

Genero : časopis za feminističku teoriju i studije kulture ◽

10.5937/genero2125107h ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 107-131

Author(s):

Ana Huber

Keyword(s):

Academic Discourse ◽

Radical Feminism ◽

Gender Theory ◽

Sex And Gender ◽

Main Field ◽

Gender Identities ◽

And Gender ◽

Gender Neutrality

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the new menstrual terminology in the context of certain principles of Judith Butler's gender theory. Over the last few years, it has been emphasized, in public and academic discourse, that menstruation is not exclusively a feminine question, but it also affects people who do not feel or identify as cis women. It is about trans, intersexual, genderfluid, and non-binary people. Menstrual movements are formed to plead the linguistic reformulation of menstrual terminology and its gender neutrality. We will briefly expose the elements of Judith Butler's gender theory that are relevant to this topic. We will focus on Butler's thesis that sex and gender are socially, performatively constructed categories and that language is the main field of its origin and reformulation. We will study the origins and causes of this terminology, its consequences, and how the new menstrual concepts affect the redefinition of female and gender identities in general, considering the arguments of the trans movement and the arguments of radical feminism.

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Westernization and The Transmogrification of Sailor Moon

interalia: a journal of queer studies ◽

10.51897/interalia/dsgq4165 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 78-89

Author(s):

Rhea Ashley Hoskin

Keyword(s):

Binary Systems ◽

Sex And Gender ◽

Western Thought ◽

Gender Identities ◽

The West ◽

English Translations ◽

And Gender ◽

A Site ◽

Lost In Translation

Sailor Moon, a Japanese series grounded in manga and anime, began airing translations in the West throughout the 1990s. The series provided what could be interpreted as resistance to dichotomous conceptualizations of sexuality, sex and gender. The focus of this article is the set of challenges presented by the genderqueer characters in Sailor Moon and how Westernization and English translations have worked to erase and re-write queer identities. Arguably, Sailor Moon acts as a site to play out the contextualities and complexities of sexuality, sex and gender identities. To name Sailor Moon characters in Western specific terms would be at the expense of reducing the complexity of their identities to a categorical system whose boundaries detract and limit meaning. Queer characters in Sailor Moon are not translatable into dichotomous Western thought - categories fail us and, through their enforcement, the depth of meaning and the complexities of queer identities/desires are lost in translation. Working within Western binary systems, categories and language, many of these identities appear contradictory and incoherent. Sailor Moon characters offer a re-envisioning of identities that is not limited by Western binaric thought and cannot be easily pegged within the heterosexual matrix.

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(MAIS)CULINOS: outras possibilidades de corpos e gêneros para as carnes sexuadas pela presença de um pênis

Outros Tempos – Pesquisa em Foco - História ◽

10.18817/ot.v17i29.776 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 17 (29) ◽

pp. 260-281

Author(s):

DURVAL MUNIZ DE ALBUQUERQUE JÚNIOR

Keyword(s):

Short Story ◽

Sex And Gender ◽

Gender Identities ◽

The Social ◽

And Gender ◽

The Given

Partindo de uma diferenciação conceitual entre carne e corpo, esse texto discute como as atribuições sociais e culturais de identidades de sexo e gênero, para dadas carnes, são fundamentais na construção de corpos vistos e ditos como de machos e como masculinos. Tomando como objeto de análise um conto do escritor pernambucano Marcelino Freire, o conto Júnior, presente no seu livro Rasif: mar que arrebenta, o texto procura exemplificar como as carnes que nascem sexuadas com um pênis não estão condenadas pela natureza, ou pela divindade, a vir a configurarem corpos de machos ou corpos masculinos. O texto busca deixar claro que há mais masculinos do que as visões naturalistas e deterministas procuram afirmar.Palavras-chave: Carne. Corpo. Masculinidades.(MORE)CULINES: other possibilities of bodies and genders for flesh sexed by the presence of a penis Abstract: Starting from a conceptual differentiation between flesh and body, this text examines how the social and cultural attributions of sex and gender identities, for the given fleshes, are fundamental in the construction of bodies viewed and called male and masculine. Taking as object of analysis a short story by Pernambuco writer Marcelino Freire, O Conto Junior, present in his book Rasif: sea that breaks, our text seeks to exemplify how the flesh born with a penis is not condemned by nature, or by a deity, to eventually become male or masculine bodies. The text seeks to clear that there are more masculine forms than naturalist and deterministic views state.Keywords: Flesh. Body. Masculinities.(MAIS)CULINOS: otras posibilidades de cuerpos y de géneros para las carnes sexuadas por la presencia de un peneResumen: Partiendo de una diferenciación conceptual entre carne y cuerpo, ese texto analiza como las atribuciones sociales y culturales de identidades de sexo y género, para dadas carnes, son fundamentales en la construcción de cuerpos vistos y dichos como de machos y como masculinos. Tomando como objeto de análisis un cuento del escritor de Pernambuco, Marcelino Freire, el cuento Júnior, presente en su libro Rasif: mar que arrebenta, el texto busca ejemplificar como las carnes nascidas con un pene no están condenadas por la naturaleza, o por la divinidad, a venir a configuraren cuerpos de machos o cuerpos masculinos. El texto busca dejar en claro que hay más masculinos del que las visiones naturalistas y deterministas afirman.Palabras clave: Carne. Cuerpo. Masculinidades.

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BODY AND IDENTITY IN LIAOZHAI ZHIYI

NAN Nü ◽

10.1163/15685260260460829 ◽

2002 ◽

Vol 4 (2) ◽

pp. 207-231

Author(s):

Sing-Chen Lydia Francis

Keyword(s):

Cultural Identity ◽

The Body ◽

Sex And Gender ◽

Gender Identities ◽

Self Identity ◽

Physical Body ◽

Late Imperial ◽

Artistic Representations ◽

And Gender ◽

Corporeal Body

AbstractThis paper discusses how Pu Songling (1640-1715) constructs an alternative self-identity through his artistic representations of the body in Liaozhai zhiyi. Pu's fantastic discourse of the body subverts late imperial cultural and fictional discourses, in which the corporeal body becomes a material marker of essentialized cultural identity. In Liaozhai, the body is problematized as a signifier of selfhood. The figure of the phallus as a symbol of power is detached from the physical body and dissociated from conventional concepts of sex and gender. On the thematic level, the deconstructed bodies in Liaozhai may be read as embodiments of class and gender identities transformed through an alternative fictional discourse of self-expression.

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Sekse- en genderdualiteit in discussie. Spreken over mannelijk en vrouwelijk in kerk en theologie

Theologia Reformata ◽

10.21827/tr.64.2.142-158 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 64 (2) ◽

pp. 142-158

Author(s):

D.J. Steensma

Keyword(s):

Gender Identity ◽

Gender Role ◽

Human Sexuality ◽

Sex And Gender ◽

Gender Identities ◽

Male And Female ◽

Female Model ◽

The Reformation ◽

Sexual Characteristics ◽

And Gender

Speaking about two sexes and two kinds of gender connected with those sexes is the consequence of an ideology that disconnects the gender role and identity from the sex. Gender identity is according to this ideology a choice. The notion of two sexes is a modern invention; premodernity knew of only one sex. The experience of friction between sex and gender identities reinforces uncertainty, as does that of persons who have both male and female sexual characteristics. Some theologians argue in favour of abandoning the binary male-female model of human sexuality. This article argues that contemporary discussions of human sexuality challenge church and theology in the tradition of the Reformation to think through and define their position.

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