Gender and Sexual Desire Justice in African Christianity

2021 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-36
Author(s):  
Chammah J Kaunda ◽  
Mutale Mulenga Kaunda
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Desire ◽  
African Christianity ◽  
And Gender

This article explores the nexus of themes of sexual desire, gender and prayer in the Bemba mythology of creation. Approached from Sarah Coakley’s theology of participation in the divine desire, the article utilizes email technique to collect data from African scholars both women and men with an intention to find out their perspectives on the nexus of the entangled themes above as embodied within the widespread Bemba mythology. The second objective was to understand the ways in which these three themes are intersected in the mythology and demonstrate how the contemporary African Christian search for gender and sexual desire justice might be linked to a gendered prayer. The findings show that gendered prayer could be a place of sexual desire and gender healing and justice for women.

The HeLa Bomb and the Science of Unveiling

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-30 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sandra Harvey
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Hela Cell ◽  
Sexual Desire ◽  
State Building ◽  
Social Progress ◽  
Scientific Journals ◽  
Science Journalism ◽  
Medical Institutions ◽  
A Cell ◽  
And Gender

This essay reads the narratives of HeLa cell contamination as accusations of racial and gender passing. It argues that the passing narrative is much more complex, rarely confined to an individual’s autonomous will, and far more entrenched in state building and concepts of social progress than previously considered. I urge us to move away from the desire of the passing subject, and back to our own to ask after the sort of anxiety, excitement, and panic that animate our attempts to see, classify, and regulate bodies. Thus, what becomes significant is an examination of an “ethics of knowing” within science. The paper draws on a collection of correspondence, lab notes, published articles, and newspaper clippings related to Henrietta Lacks and HeLa from the George O. Gey Collection at the Medical Archives of the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions (1918-1974) and articles on HeLa published in scientific journals, science journalism, and cultural studies articles (1950-present). In doing so, it traces the narratives of science (and its complex of industries—journalism and cultural studies) and HeLa’s passing. Tracing the reactions to HeLa contamination, the paper asks after the ways national, racial, and sexual desire, fantasy, anxiety, and paranoia have animated the cells through time. Particularly it examines the agency of HeLa, a cell line that is passed through race and genders and ideas of mortality, as it makes clear its own vital, creative, and destructive forces.

scholarly journals Towards an African ecogender theology: A decolonial theological perspective

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 177 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chammah J Kaunda
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Gender Justice ◽  
African Christianity ◽  
Theological Perspective ◽  
Traditional Societies ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Relational Solidarity

The struggles for environmental and gender justice have challenged how theology is done in Africa. This article framed within the context of continuous search for life-giving African Christianity, argues that a radical relational solidarity that existed between African humanity and environment in some Zambian traditional societies was grounded on ecogender principle. Thus, it seeks to probe deeper into contemporary challenge of African men’s alienation from environment as a consequence of colonial quest to restructure African social order. Employing decolonial theological perspective, the article tried to reinterpret some life-giving elements from Bemba and Shila cultural heritage in order to re-conceptualize contemporary African Christian ecotheology. It is from this perspective where African ecogender theology is constructed towards transformation of African human and environment relationship.

Prophecy, Divination and Gender Justice in the Lumpa Church in Zambia

2018 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 75-92
Author(s):  
Jonathan Kangwa
Keyword(s):  
Rapid Growth ◽  
Gender Justice ◽  
Strong Growth ◽  
African Christianity ◽  
The Future ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Church

This article examines the role of Prophecy and divination in the success of the Lumpa Church of Alice Mulenga Lenshina in Zambia. Concurring with James Amanze (2013), the article argues that the rapid growth of Christianity in Africa is to a large extent due to its engagement with prophecy and divination. Strong growth in African Christianity takes place mainly in the African Initiated Churches (AICs) which are Pentecostal-charismatic in their outlook. In these Churches the emphasis is on the prophetic ministry of the Church, evident in the performance of divination, healing and in predictions of the future. A good example is the Lumpa Church of Lenshina. Taking this Church as a case study, the article argues that Lenshina’s success and that of her Church are based on the fact that divination, prophecy and a search for gender justice were taken seriously.

scholarly journals Psychosexual Functioning Outcome Testing after Hypospadias Repair

Healthcare ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 32 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marko Majstorovic ◽  
Marta Bizic ◽  
Dejan Nikolic ◽  
Borko Stojanovic ◽  
Marko Bencic ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Activity ◽  
Sexual Desire ◽  
Sexual Functioning ◽  
Sexual Relationships ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Self Confidence ◽  
Long Term Follow Up ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Psychosexual Dysfunctions ◽  
Psychosexual Functioning

Self-confidence plays an important role in both genders’ sexual functioning. Lack of genital self-esteem may have negative effects on psychosexual development, especially in males, where deviations from a standardized normal penile appearance can lead to inhibitions in entering into sexual relationships. The aim of our study was to evaluate the informativeness of studied domains of the Global Sexual Functioning (GSF) questionnaire and sexual functioning of patients surgically treated in childhood for different types of hypospadias. We evaluated 63 males with hypospadias and 60 healthy age- and gender-matched controls. The GSF questionnaire was used to estimate psychosexual function as a long-term follow-up after the surgical correction of hypospadias in the patient and control groups. Sexual activity (p = 0.017), arousal (p = 0.033) and orgasmic abilities (p = 0.002) values were significantly increased in patients. Strong correlation was noticed between sexual activity and sexual desire (R = 0.872); arousal and sexual desire (R = 0.753), as well as orgasmic and erectile abilities (R = 0.769). Different domains of psychosexual functioning in the patient group correlated with each other to various degrees, resulting in a heterogeneous expression of psychosexual dysfunctions, implicating the necessity of a personalized treatment approach.

scholarly journals Queer Performativity and Sexual Orientation in Christopher Isherwood’s A Single Man

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 173-186
Author(s):  
Fadila Ramadhani ◽  
Ali Mustofa
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Orientation ◽  
Sexual Desire ◽  
Queer Studies ◽  
Main Character ◽  
Negative Behavior ◽  
Self Identity ◽  
Analytical Perspective ◽  
Men's Psychology ◽  
Christopher Isherwood ◽  
And Gender

This research examines the queer performativity and sexual orientation in a novel entitled A Single Man by Christopher Isherwood. The main purpose of this study is to reveal the signs of homosexuality by the protagonist George. The queer studies analytical perspective is used to analyze how the writer constructs the sexual desire of the main character through several events. The study aims to scrutiny the queer performativity and sexual orientation of the main character as a flexible and indeterminate entity exactly in accordance with Butler’s theory, besides, the writer uses Sedgwick’s perspective that explains and describes sexual orientation and gender. The result of the analysis shows some symptoms that exist in George’s character. Living with a different sexual orientation as homosexual is not an easy job when the surrounding is heterosexual society. The situation can create a confusion and over self-identity also an existence of life anxiety. This exhibits negative behavior towards homosexuals and excludes them from autonomous carrying out their identity and essence. This research can give the readers a deeper understanding of what the queer process idea in the field of literature or in the workplace, hence, this also can  be a new idea for future readers who are interested in discussing homosexual or gay men’s psychology.

Dialing Up Desire and Dampening Disinterest: Regulating Sexual Desire in the Bedroom and Sexual and Relationship Well-Being

2021 ◽  
pp. 026540752110547
Author(s):  
Rebecca M. Horne ◽  
Stephanie Raposo ◽  
Amy Muise ◽  
Cheryl Harasymchuk ◽  
Emily A. Impett
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Relationship Satisfaction ◽  
Sexual Satisfaction ◽  
Sexual Desire ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Romantic Partners ◽  
Low Sexual Desire ◽  
Diary Studies ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Mixed Gender

Romantic partners often regulate their emotions and affection to achieve certain goals, but research has yet to explore how partners regulate their expression of sexual desire during sex and its implications for couples’ well-being. In two multi-part dyadic diary studies of primarily mixed-gender couples in longer-term relationships residing in North America, we examined three questions. First, is amplifying desire and suppressing disinterest during sex associated with both partners’ daily sexual and relationship satisfaction? Second, do these associations differ by level of sexual desire and gender? Third, tested in our second sample, can these associations be explained by feelings of sexual inauthenticity? Across both samples (Ntotal = 225 couples, 450 participants), amplifying desire was associated with lower sexual satisfaction, while suppressing disinterest was not associated with daily satisfaction. Importantly, sexual desire played a role in the links between desire regulation during sex and satisfaction: on days when people were low in sexual desire, amplification was associated with both partners’ lower sexual satisfaction, while suppression was associated with a partner’s higher relationship satisfaction. In addition, amplification (on low desire days) and suppression (regardless of desire level) were associated with lower sexual authenticity which, in turn, was linked to lower relationship satisfaction. The findings suggest that desire regulation during sex plays an important role in couples’ daily sexual satisfaction and relationship satisfaction—in part because it feels sexually inauthentic—with the implications of this regulation being particularly strong when people feel low sexual desire.

Latina Girls' Sexual Education in the (New) Latinx Diaspora

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 65-81
Author(s):  
Katherine Clonan-Roy
Keyword(s):  
Adolescent Girls ◽  
Sexual Desire ◽  
Sexual Education ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
Gender Identities ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Latina Girls

In 1988, Michelle Fine explored the ways in which damaging patriarchal discourses about sexuality affect adolescent girls, and hinder their development of sexual desire, subjectivities, and responsibility. In this article, I emphasize the durability and pliability of those discourses three decades later. While they have endured, they shift depending on context and the intersections of girls’ race, class, and gender identities. Calling on ethnographic research, I analyze the intersectional nuances in these sexual lessons for Latina girls in one (New) Latinx Diaspora town.

scholarly journals Sex and Marriage in Machiavelli’s Mandragola: A Close(t) Reading

2017 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-36
Author(s):  
Konrad Eisenbichler
Keyword(s):  
Willingness To Pay ◽  
Gender Studies ◽  
Sexual Desire ◽  
Sexual Practices ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
Sex And Gender ◽  
Désir Sexuel ◽  
The Difference ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Sexual Interests

This article carries out a close reading of Niccolò Machiavelli’s play Mandragola (The mandrake root) from the perspective of sex and gender studies. In so doing, it takes into consideration what the play says or suggests about sexual desire, sexual practices, and conjugal life. This somewhat less conventional examination reveals that, under cover of entertainment and humour, Machiavelli was raising important questions about contemporary marriage conventions and sexual practices that ranged from the difference in age between the spouses to the difference in their sexual interests, from a couple’s desire for progeny to the partners’ (un)willingness to pay the marriage debt, from the matter of a man’s “honour” to the question of a woman’s “worth.” Cet article propose une lecture approfondie de la pièce de théâtre Mandragola (La Mandragore) de Nicolas Machiavel du point de vue du sexe et des études de genre. On y considère ce que cette pièce exprime ou suggère à propos du désir sexuel, des pratiques sexuelles et de la vie conjugale. Cette approche quelque peu non conventionnelle fait apparaître que Machiavel, sous les apparences du divertissement et de l’humour, y soulève d’importantes questions quant aux conventions de mariage et aux pratiques sexuelles de son époque, depuis la différence d’âge entre les conjoints jusqu’à leurs différences d’intérêt sexuel, en passant par le désir de procréer et le consentement à payer la dette de mariage, ainsi que par le sujet de « l’honneur » de l’homme et les interrogations sur la « valeur » de la femme.

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