scholarly journals Writing Gender with Sexuality: Reflections on the Diaries of Lou Sullivan

2019 ◽  
Vol 67 (1) ◽  
pp. 59-82 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francisco J. González
Keyword(s):  
Critical Appraisal ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
First Person ◽  
Social Forms ◽  
Historical Archive ◽  
Sexuality And Gender ◽  
The Subject ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Person Account ◽  
Psychoanalytic Writing

In contemporary psychoanalytic writing, gender tends to be disarticulated from sexuality. While this has been a theoretically useful approach, especially as regards the critical appraisal of early traditional literature (which often assumed a facile coherence between sex, sexuality, and gender), this position too often leaves gender stripped of one of the most compelling forces in psychoanalytic theorizing, namely, its relation to the sexual. Here the diaries of Lou Sullivan (1951–1991)—a transsexual man who began writing long before considering sexual transitioning—are used to present an extended example of the intimate linkage between gender and sexuality. The diaries stand as a unique historical archive: a fairly comprehensive, prospective, first-person account of transsexuality, begun before the subject self-identified as transsexual, which documents a complex and candid subjective evolution. Situated historically during a time of enormous upheaval in both psychoanalysis and the culture at large on questions of gender and sexuality, the diaries offer an additional opportunity to consider the nexus of individual psyche and social forms.

scholarly journals da proteção à instrução: mobilizações prático-discursivas em torno da infância nos debates sobre gênero e sexualidade na educação

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (36) ◽  
pp. 01-20
Author(s):  
Amana Rocha Mattos ◽  
Rafael Cavalheiro
Keyword(s):  
School Context ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
Narrative Construction ◽  
Vulnerable Children ◽  
School Contexts ◽  
Sexuality And Gender ◽  
Child Vulnerability ◽  
The Subject ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Subtle Trap

This article discusses how some childhood senses have been triggered in the confrontations about the legitimacy of gender and sexuality themes in education, considering the contemporary scenario in the country. For this, we aim to analyze two practical-discursive pitfalls that have been consolidated. The first, forged by the actors of the anti-gender offensive, consists of the narrative construction of vulnerable children, to be protected, and triggers moral panic against discussions about gender and sexuality in schools. The second, more subtle trap, concerns the place of the passivity of students in the school context, which are the subject of instruction by teachers - including when gender and sexuality issues are addressed in the classroom. The image of a child-prisoner of the “gender ideologues”, passive and in danger, populates the statements analyzed in the first session, and allows us to discuss the political uses mitigated by the hyperinflation of this idea of child vulnerability. However, even in educational practices that focus on working with issues of gender and sexuality in school contexts, we observe that minority can be thought of in conservative perspectives and without agency, as discussed in the second session. To tension these logics, we point out the dimension of playfulness and play as conceptual and methodological tools that can contribute to a non-pedagogical approach to sexuality and gender in the field of education.

Promoting the dignity and worth of all people: The privilege of social work

2018 ◽  
Vol 61 (6) ◽  
pp. 758-766 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Henrickson
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
Sexual And Gender Minorities ◽  
Gender Minorities ◽  
Conference Theme ◽  
Sexuality And Gender ◽  
The World ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Successes And Challenges ◽  
International Social

The Dame Eileen Younghusband Lecture is presented every two years at the joint world conferences of international social work. In 2016 it was presented in Seoul and was based on the conference theme ‘promoting the dignity and worth of people’. The lecture includes a review of heroes, legal, political and social successes, and challenges for sexual and gender minorities around the world. It challenges the binary of gender and sexuality. The privilege of social work is to choose either to challenge or to reproduce oppression based on sexuality and gender, and protect the dignity and worth of all peoples.

scholarly journals Converging Feminist and Queer Legal Theories: Family Feuds and Family Ties

2010 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 209 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elaine Craig
Keyword(s):  
Queer Theory ◽  
Legal Theory ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
Family Ties ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
Sexuality And Gender ◽  
Feminist Theories ◽  
Methodological Approaches ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Cour De Justice

The notion that queer theory and feminism are inevitably in tension with one another has been well developed both by queer and feminist theorists. Queer theorists have critiqued feminist theories for being anti-sex, overly moralistic, essentialist, and statist. Feminist theorists have rejected queer theory as being uncritically pro-sex and dangerously protective of the private sphere. Unfortunately these reductionist accounts of what constitutes a plethora of diverse, eclectic and overlapping theoretical approaches to issues of sex, gender, and sexuality, often fail to account for the circumstances where these methodological approaches converge on legal projects aimed at advancing the complex justice interests of women and sexual minorities. A recent decision from the Ontario Court of Justice addressing a three-parent family law dispute involving gay and lesbian litigants demonstrates why recognition of the convergences between feminist and queer legal theories can advance both queer and feminist justice projects. The objective of this article is to demonstrate, through different and converging interpretations of this case that draw on some of the theoretical insights offered in a new anthology called Feminist and Queer Legal Theory, one rather straight-forward claim. The claim advanced here is that activists, advocates, litigants and judges are all well served by approaching complex legal problems involving sex, sexuality and gender with as many “methods” for pursuing and achieving justice as possible.La notion que la théorie homosexuelle et le féminisme sont inévitablement en conflit l’un avec l’autre a été bien développée à la fois par les théoriciens et théoriciennes homosexuels et féministes. Les théoriciens et théoriciennes homosexuels ont critiqué les théories féministes les qualifiant d’être anti-sexe, trop moralistes, essentialistes et étatistes. Les théoriciens et théoriciennes féministes ont rejeté la théorie homosexuelle la qualifiant d’être pro-sexe sans esprit critique et dangereusement protectrice du domaine privé. Malheureusement, ces descriptions réductionnistes de ce qui constitue une pléthore d’approches théoriques aux questions de sexe, de genre et de sexualité qui sont diverses, éclectiques et qui se chevauchent manquent fréquemment de tenir compte de circonstances où ces approches méthodologiques convergent sur des projets légaux visant à faire avancer les intérêts juridiques complexes des femmes et des minorités sexuelles. Une décision récente de la Cour de justice de l’Ontario portant sur un litige en droit de la famille entre trois parents et impliquant des parties homosexuelles et lesbiennes démontre pourquoi la reconnaissance des convergences entre les théories juridiques féministes et homosexuelles peut faire avancer à la fois les projets légaux homosexuels et féministes. Le but de cet article n’est pas de suggérer qu’une seule «théorie juridique féministe homosexuelle» convergente soit possible, ou même désirable. Plutôt, le but est de démontrer, par le biais d’interprétations différentes et convergentes de ce cas qui s’inspirent de certaines intuitions théoriques présentées dans une nouvelle anthologie intitulée Feminist and Queer Legal Theory, une proposition assez simple. La proposition avancée ici est que les activistes, les avocats, les parties à un litige et les juges sont tous bien servis en abordant des problèmes légaux complexes au sujet de sexe, de sexualité et de genre avec autant de «méthodes» que possible pour considérer la justice dans tous ses détails.

scholarly journals Policing Visible Sexual/Gender Diversity as a Program of Governance

2012 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 14-26 ◽  
Author(s):  
Angela Dwyer
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Gender Diversity ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
Interview Data ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
The Public ◽  
Sexuality And Gender ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Police Interactions

Using interview data on LGBT young people’s policing experiences, I argue policing and security works as a program of government (Dean 1999; Foucault 1991; Rose 1999) that constrains the visibilities of diverse sexuality and gender in public spaces. While young people narrated police actions as discriminatory, the interactions were complex and multi-faceted with police and security working to subtly constrain the public visibilities of ‘queerness’. Same sex affection, for instance, was visibly yet unverifiably (Mason 2002) regulated by police as a method of governing the boundaries of proper gender and sexuality in public. The paper concludes by noting how the visibility of police interactions with LGBT young people demonstrates to the public that public spaces are, and should remain, heterosexual spaces.

The Oxford Handbook of Queer Cinema

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Production ◽  
The United States ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
Television Programs ◽  
Cultural Productions ◽  
Queer Cinema ◽  
Sexuality And Gender ◽  
History Of ◽  
Cross Dressing ◽  
And Gender

Queer media is not one thing but an ensemble of at least four moving variables: history, gender and sexuality, geography, and medium. Although many scholars would pinpoint the early 1990s as marking the emergence of a cinematic movement in the United States (dubbed by B. Ruby Rich the “new queer cinema”), films and television programs that clearly spoke to LGBTQ themes and viewers existed at many different historical moments and in many different forms: cross-dressing, same-sex attraction, comedic drag performance; at some points, for example, in 1950s television, these were not undercurrents but very prominent aspects of mainstream cultural production. Addressing “history” not as dots on a progressive spectrum but as an uneven story of struggle, the writers in this volume stress that queer cinema did not appear miraculously at one moment but arrived on currents throughout the century-long history of the medium. Likewise, while queer is an Anglophone term that has been widely circulated, it by no means names a unified or complete spectrum of sexuality and gender identity, just as the LGBTQ+ alphabet soup struggles to contain the distinctive histories, politics, and cultural productions of trans artists and genderqueer practices. Across the globe, media-makers have interrogated identity and desire through the medium of cinema through rubrics that sometimes vigorously oppose the Western embrace of the pejorative term queer, foregrounding instead indigenous genders and sexualities or those forged in the Global South or those seeking alternative epistemologies. Finally, though “cinema” is in our title, many scholars in this collection see this term as an encompassing one, referencing cinema and media in a convergent digital environment. The lively and dynamic conversations introduced here aspire to sustain further reflection as “queer cinema” shifts into new configurations.

scholarly journals Histórias e narrativas digitais na educação sexual da infância: possibilidades e limitações

Perspectiva ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 1041-1068
Author(s):  
Luciana Kornatzki ◽  
Maria Isabel Seixas da Cunha Chagas
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Sex Education ◽  
Research Methodology ◽  
Sexuality Education ◽  
Digital Storytelling ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
Childhood Sexuality ◽  
Sexuality And Gender ◽  
And Gender

As histórias estão presentes nos espaços escolares da infância e contribuem na construção da criança, de suas sensibilidades e subjetividades. As narrativas digitais, que possibilitam a relação entre história e tecnologias digitais, podem contribuir na inserção das Tecnologias Digitais na escola e em propostas em educação sexual. Objetiva-se, neste artigo, refletir sobre esse recurso como possibilidade pedagógica na problematização do gênero e sexualidade com a infância. Para isso, são apresentadas algumas reflexões sobre histórias e narrativas, assim como uma revisão de literatura, resultante de uma metodologia de pesquisa bibliográfica às bases de dados de Educação, sobre o uso das narrativas digitais em contextos educativos e também em educação sexual, sexualidade e gênero. Reflete-se também sobre limites e possibilidades desse recurso nas temáticas em discussão e mostra-se um cenário de aprendizagem que clarifica e objetiva a proposição das narrativas digitais nessas temáticas. Dessa forma, compreende-se a importância da busca por novas propostas pedagógicas de educação sexual com crianças, incluindo contribuições das tecnologias digitais nesse processo. Digital storytelling in childhood sexuality education: possibilities and limitations AbstractThe stories are present in kindergarten and contribute to the construction of the child, his/her sensibilities and subjectivities. The digital narratives that enable relationships between stories and digital technologies, can contribute to the integration of digital technologies in schools and to the rise of new proposals on sex education. We aim to reflect on this feature as a learning possibility to the problematization of gender and sexuality with children. Therefore, we present some reflections about stories and narratives, as well as a literature review, resulting from a bibliographical research methodology to databases of Education, on the use of digital storytelling in educational contexts as well as in sex education, specifically sexuality and gender. We also reflect about the limits and possibilities of storytelling in sex education and present a learning scenario that clarifies and concretizes the proposition of digital storytelling in these themes. We understand the importance of the search for new educational proposals for children’s sex education, including the contributions of digital technologies in the process.Keywords: Sexuality. Storytelling. Computers and education. Récits numériques dans l'éducation sexuelle a l'enfance: possibilités et limites Résumé Les histoires sont présentes à l'école maternelle et contribuent à la construction de l'enfant, ses sensibilités et subjectivités. Les récits numériques qui permettent établir des relations entre les histoires et les technologies numériques, peuvent contribuer à l'intégration des technologies numériques dans l’école et à la création de nouvelles propositions sur l'éducation sexuelle. Nous visons à réfléchir sur cette fonctionnalité comme une possibilité d'apprendre à la problématisation du genre et la sexualité avec les enfants. Par conséquent, nous présentons quelques réflexions sur les histoires et récits, ainsi que d'une revue de la littérature, résultant d'une méthodologie de recherche bibliographique à des bases de données de l'éducation, sur l'utilisation de la narration numérique dans des contextes éducatifs ainsi que dans l'éducation sexuelle, en particulier la sexualité et le genre. Nous réfléchissons aussi sur les limites et les possibilités de la narration dans l'éducation sexuelle et présentons un scénario d'apprentissage qui clarifie et concrétise la proposition de la narration numérique dans ces thèmes. Nous comprenons l'importance de la recherche de nouvelles propositions pédagogiques pour l'éducation sexuelle des enfants, y compris les contributions des technologies numériques dans le processus.Mots-clés: Sexualité. Contes. Ordinateurs et Éducation.

Does Lara Croft Wear Fake Polygons? Gender and Gender-Role Subversion in Computer Adventure Games

Leonardo ◽  
2001 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
pp. 221-226 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne-Marie Schleiner
Keyword(s):  
Gender Role ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Computer Games ◽  
First Person ◽  
Adventure Games ◽  
Gaming Culture ◽  
On Line ◽  
The Subject ◽  
And Gender ◽  
First Person Shooter

The subject matter of this article emerged in part out of research for the author's thesis project and first game patch, Madame Polly, a “first-person shooter gender hack.” Since the time it was written, there has been an upsurge of interest and research in computer games among artists and media theoreticians. Considerable shifts in gaming culture at large have taken place, most notably a shift toward on-line games, as well as an increase in the number of female players. The multidirectional information space of the network offers increasing possibilities for interventions and gender reconfigurations such as those discussed at the end of the article.

Crossing borders in transnational gender history

2011 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 357-379 ◽  
Author(s):  
Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks
Keyword(s):  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
Transnational History ◽  
Multiple Perspectives ◽  
Gender History ◽  
Sexuality And Gender ◽  
Matter Theory ◽  
History Of ◽  
And Gender ◽  
And Migration ◽  
New Research

AbstractTransnational history and the history of gender and sexuality have both been concerned with the issue of borders and their crossing, but the two fields themselves have not intersected much in the past. This is beginning to change, and this article surveys recent scholarship that draws on both fields, highlighting work in six areas: movements for women’s and gay rights; diverse understandings of sexuality and gender; colonialism and imperialism; intermarriage; national identity and citizenship; and migration. This new research suggests ways in which the subject matter, theory, and methodology in transnational history and the history of gender and sexuality can interconnect: in the two fields’ mutual emphasis on intertwinings, relationships, movement, and hybridity; their interdisciplinarity and stress on multiple perspectives; and their calls for destabilization of binaries.

scholarly journals Comparison of Personal Pronoun between Arabic and Its Indonesian Translation of Koran

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (5) ◽  
pp. 238 ◽  
Author(s):  
Markhamah ◽  
Abdul Ngalim ◽  
Muhammad Muinudinillah Basri ◽  
Atiqa Sabardila
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
First Person ◽  
Personal Pronoun ◽  
Arabic Version ◽  
Personal Pronouns ◽  
Person Pronoun ◽  
The Subject ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Linguistic Units

The system of pronoun in Indonesian language and Arabic is diverse. This becomes the main consideration of the emergence of the current study. This comparative-descriptive-qualitative study aims at comparing the Indonesian translation of Quran with its Arabic version to differentiate pronouns of both languages in relation to gender (male, female, neutral), grammatical categories of number (singular, plural, dual), and tenses (past, present, and future). Al-Qur’an which is written in Arabic is then compared to the Indonesian translation of it. Moreover, the objects of the research are personal pronouns and the data are all linguistic units consisting of personal pronouns in the Indonesian translation of Quran compared to its Arabic version. The data were collected through content analysis. Then, the comparative and distributional methods were employed to analyze the data. The findings show that in terms of gender, personal pronoun has different translation in the two languages. Indonesian does not distinguish the personal pronoun that refers to male or female, while Arabic does. In terms of quantity, Indonesian first person pronoun kami ‘we’ is commonly used for plural. However in the translated verses, kami ‘we’ refers to both singular and plural. Furthermore, in terms of tenses, Indonesian and Arabic utilize different systems. Indonesian does not distinguish the pronoun in terms of past, present, or future act, while Arabic adjusts the grammatical conformity between the verb and the subject or between the adverb and the subject in relation to number, person, and gender to express an element of tense. 

scholarly journals Produção científica sobre sexualidade de mulheres idosas em periódicos da enfermagem, saúde pública e gerontologia

2009 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 1118 ◽  
Author(s):  
Silvana Sidney Costa Santos ◽  
Beatriz De Carvalho Cavalheiro
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Elderly Women ◽  
Graduate Programs ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
Revisión Sistemática ◽  
Sexuality And Gender ◽  
Elder Women ◽  
Las Mujeres ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Los Grupos

ABSTRACTObjective: to verify the scientific production on elder women, gender and sexuality in journals of Nursing, Public Health and Gerontology. Method: a systematic review of literature, in journals of Nursing, Public Health and Gerontology in Brazil, in the years 2003 to 2007. Results: the 362 articles were pre-selected (111 in nursing, 95 in Public Health and 156 in Gerontology), of these, seven focus on elderly women, gender and sexuality. It was possible to understand that sexuality and gender issues of elder women remain invisible, and few significant. From the seven articles three categories were abstracted: feminization of aging, social of women’s aging and asexualized elderly. Conclusion: the nurses and the groups of studies and research on gender began to dawn, showing interest in the issues. Requires that the educational projects of graduate programs in health, especially in nursing, bringing more thoughts on gender and sexuality of older women. Descriptors: woman; aging; sexuality; nursing.RESUMOObjetivo: verificar a produção científica sobre mulheres idosas, gênero e sexualidade em periódicos da Enfermagem, Saúde Pública e Gerontologia. Método: revisão sistemática de literatura, realizada em periódicos de Enfermagem, Saúde Pública e Gerontologia, no Brasil, nos anos de 2003 a 2007. Resultados: foram pré-selecionados 362 artigos (111 na Enfermagem; 95 na Saúde Pública e 156 na Gerontologia), destes, sete versaram sobre mulher idosa, gênero e sexualidade. Foi possível perceber que sexualidade e gênero das mulheres idosas continuam temas invisíveis e poucos expressivos. A partir dos sete artigos foram abstraídas três categorias: feminilização da velhice, questão social da velhice feminina, idosa assexualizada. Conclusão: os enfermeiros e os grupos de estudos e pesquisa sobre gênero começam a despontar, apresentando interesse com as temáticas. Necessita-se que os projetos pedagógicos dos cursos de graduação na área da saúde tragam mais reflexões sobre gênero e sexualidade das mulheres idosas.   Descritores: mulher; velhice; sexualidade; enfermagem.            RESUMENObjetivo: verificar la producción científica sobre las mujeres de edad, el género y la sexualidad en las revistas de Enfermería, Salud Pública y Gerontología. Metodo: una revisión sistemática de la literatura, en las revistas de Enfermería, Salud Pública y Gerontología en el Brasil, en los años 2003 a 2007.. Resultados: el 362 artículos pre-seleccionados (111 en enfermería, 95 en Salud Pública en Gerontología y 156), siete se centran en las mujeres de edad, el género y la sexualidad. Es posible comprender que la sexualidad y las cuestiones de género de las mujeres de edad siguen siendo invisibles, y son pocos significativos. De los siete artículos Fueron abstraídas tres categorías: feminilizacion de la vejez, cuestión social de la vejez femenina y mayor sin sexualidad. Conclusión: las enfermeras y los grupos de estudios e investigaciones sobre el género comenzó a amanecer, mostrando interés en las cuestiones. Exige que los proyectos educativos de los programas de postgrado en materia de salud, especialmente en enfermería, deberían traer más reflexiones sobre genero y sexualidad de las mujeres mayores. Descriptores: mujer; vejez; sexualidad; enfermería.

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