Sexuality and Gender

2020 ◽  
pp. 71-86
Author(s):  
Peter Thonemann
Keyword(s):  
Gender Relations ◽  
Female Sexuality ◽  
Symbolic Meaning ◽  
Biological Sex ◽  
Sexual Roles ◽  
Sexuality And Gender ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Implicit And Explicit ◽  
Previous Scholarship

The Oneirocritica is a remarkably rich source of evidence for Graeco-Roman ideas about gender relations and male and female sexuality. For Artemidorus, as Foucault recognized, the key to the symbolic meaning of a sex-act in a dream is not the biological sex of the participants, but their relative social status. This chapter deals with Artemidorus’ classification of sex-dreams (varieties of sexual intercourse which are considered to be ‘in accordance with’ or ‘contrary to’ law and/or nature), as well as the symbolic significance of different sexual acts and positions; it is argued that Artemidorus’ sexual ethics are more strongly heteronormative than they have often been considered in previous scholarship. This chapter also explores the marginalization of women’s dreams (and female sexuality) in the Oneirocritica, as well as Artemidorus’ implicit and explicit assumptions about gender relations and female social and sexual roles.

The Sexual Abuse Scandal and a New Ethical Horizon: A Perspective from India

2019 ◽  
Vol 80 (4) ◽  
pp. 931-949
Author(s):  
Shaji George Kochuthara
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Abuse ◽  
Gender Relations ◽  
Indian Society ◽  
Contributing Factors ◽  
Negative Attitudes ◽  
Sexuality And Gender ◽  
The Hierarchical Structure ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Abuse Of Women ◽  
Vulnerable Adults

Despite recent signs of change, the Indian church was rather reluctant to acknowledge the clerical sexual abuse scandal as its own problem. In the Indian context, the scandal entails not only the abuse of minors, but also the abuse of women and other vulnerable adults by church personnel. The hierarchical structure of Indian society, gender relations based on patriarchy, and postcolonial attitudes provide a fertile ground for abuse. Clericalism, centralization of power in the church, and continuing negative attitudes to sexuality are further contributing factors. The clerical sexual abuse scandal calls for developing new ethical horizons based on a theology of a participatory church, and a reconsideration of the church’s attitude to sexuality and gender relations.

Race, Sexuality, and Gender as They Relate to the Festival of the Kings

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jean Muteba Rahier
Keyword(s):  
Gender Relations ◽  
Role Reversal ◽  
Santo Domingo ◽  
Sexual Role ◽  
Racial Relations ◽  
Sexuality And Gender ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Political Realities

This chapter explores further the socioeconomic and political realities that make the contexts of the Play in Santo Domingo de Ónzole and La Tola by paying special attention to these two fields of meaning: race and racial relations, and sexual dichotomy, gender relations, and sexual role reversal. These explorations should provide additional evidence in support of interpretations of the Play in the two villages while also shedding some light on the Play's acts. The discussions cover Afro-Esmeraldian sexuality, “matrifocality,” and gender relations; reputation and the prevalence of the sexuality and gender relations field of meaning in Santo Domingo; and the prevalence of the racial relations field of meaning in La Tola.

scholarly journals Beyond Tribadism: Alternate Discourses on Female  Homoeroticism in Greek and Latin Literature

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Jennifer Helen Oliver
Keyword(s):  
Active Role ◽  
Latin Literature ◽  
Sexuality And Gender ◽  
Female Homoeroticism ◽  
Alternate Discourses ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Similar Dynamic ◽  
Previous Scholarship

<p>Scholarly accounts of sexuality in the ancient world have placed much emphasis on the normative dichotomy of activity and passivity. In the case of female homoeroticism, scholars have focussed largely on the figure of the so-called tribas, a masculinised, aggressively penetrative female who takes the active role in sexual relations with women. My thesis seeks to set out a wider conceptualisation of female homoeroticism that encompasses erotic sensuality between conventionally feminine women. The first chapter surveys previous scholarship on ancient sexuality and gender and on female homoeroticism in particular, examining the difficulties in terminology and methodology inherent in such a project. The second chapter turns to the Callisto episode in Ovid’s Metamorphoses, beginning with the kiss between the huntress Callisto and Jupiter, who is disguised as Callisto’s patron goddess Diana. The Callisto episode contains hints of previous intimacy between Callisto and Diana, and the kiss scene can be read as an erotic interaction between the two, both of whom are portrayed as conventionally feminine rather than tribadic. The third chapter examines several Greek intertexts for the Callisto episode: Callimachus’ hymns to Athena and Artemis, and the story of Leucippus as narrated by Parthenius and Pausanias. These narratives exhibit a similar dynamic to the Callisto episode, in that they eroticise the relationships both between Diana and her companions and amongst those companions. An educated reader of Ovid’s Metamorphoses would plausibly have had these Greek texts in mind, and would thus have been more likely to read the relationship between Diana and Callisto as homoerotic. Finally, the fourth chapter approaches Statius’ Achilleid from the perspective of female homoeroticism, a move without precedent in past scholarship. The relationship between Deidameia and the cross-dressed Achilles engages intertextually with the Callisto episode, presenting another exclusively female-homosocial environment in which homoerotic desires can flourish.</p>

Sexuality and Gender

2009 ◽  
pp. 304-315
Author(s):  
Laura McClure
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Identity ◽  
Social Structures ◽  
Sexual Practices ◽  
Greek Mythology ◽  
Biological Sex ◽  
Sexuality And Gender ◽  
The Status ◽  
To Come ◽  
And Gender

In discussing sexual identity, this article focuses on specific issues in understanding how individuals could be constructed as sexual beings. The ancient Greeks themselves had no specific or overarching terms for either gender or sexuality, yet distinctions based on biological sex were deeply embedded in the linguistic, cognitive, political, and social structures of their society at all periods. Just as biological sex precedes sexuality in many accounts, so men were thought to come into being before women in Greek mythology. Meanwhile, the sexual practices of the ancient Greeks attracted the attention of scholars much earlier than questions about the status and position of Greek women.

scholarly journals Problematyka (nie)męskości w procesie psychoterapii

2015 ◽  
pp. 73-91
Author(s):  
Mateusz Kobryn
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Orientation ◽  
Gender Identity ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy ◽  
Biological Sex ◽  
Sexuality And Gender ◽  
The Common ◽  
And Gender

The author tries to demonstrate the relations between sociological concepts of constructing men’s gender identity and the theory and practice of psychoanalytic psychotherapy. The complexity of the processes (intra-individual and social), in which a man recognizes his gender identity and sexual orientation, causes many theoretical and practical problems which require an interdisciplinary analysis. The article presents the dilemmas associated with different variants of modern man's gender identity and the difficulties for psychotherapists to negotiate them. The author points to the potential of sociological theories calling for the rejection of the category of biological sex, which can serve as inspiration for psychotherapists working with individuals being outside the common scheme of sexuality and gender.

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