scholarly journals Bringing The Body Back In: The Social Construction of Embodied Sexual Identities

2001 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna M. Zajicek ◽  
Chris Shields ◽  
Joe L. Wright
Keyword(s):  
Social Construction ◽  
The Body ◽  
Sexual Identities ◽  
The Social

A body without a head

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ali Chavoshian ◽  
Sophia Park
Keyword(s):  
Liberation Theology ◽  
The Body ◽  
Women's Spirituality ◽  
Passive Condition ◽  
Sexual Identities ◽  
Logical Square ◽  
The Social ◽  
Feminine Sexuality ◽  
Body Shapes ◽  
Body Theory

Along with the recent development of various theories of the body, Lacan’s body theory aligns with postmodern thinkers such as Michael Foucault and Maurice Merlot-Ponti, who consider body social not biological. Lacan emphasizes the body of the Real, the passive condition of the body in terms of formation, identity, and understanding. Then, this condition of body shapes further in the condition of bodies of women and laborers under patriarchy and capitalism, respectively. Lacan’s ‘not all’ position, which comes from the logical square, allows women to question patriarchy’s system and alternatives of sexual identities. Lacan’s approach to feminine sexuality can be applied to women’s spirituality, emphasizing multiple narratives of body and sexual identities, including gender roles. In the social discernment and analysis in the liberation theology, we can employ the capitalist discourse, which provides a tool to understand how people are manipulated by late capitalist society, not knowing it. Lacan’s theory of ‘a body without a head’ reflects the current condition of the human body, which manifests lack, yet including some possibilities for transforming society.

Tomb, Temple, Machine and Self: The Social Construction of the Body

1992 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 79 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anthony Synnott
Keyword(s):  
Social Construction ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Social

scholarly journals On Not to be Gay: Aversion therapy and transformation of the self in Postsocialist China

2012 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 132-149
Author(s):  
H Bao
Keyword(s):  
Social Construction ◽  
South China ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Self ◽  
Critical Reading ◽  
Authentic Self ◽  
The Social ◽  
Affective Experiences ◽  
Self Formation

In this article, through a critical reading of the published diaries written by gay ‘patients’ who received aversion therapy in south China in the 1990s, I examine how the transformation of subjectivities from gay to straight was made possible by such ‘self-technologizing’ practices as writing and communication. I also consider the centrality of the body and affect in the process of subject (trans)formation, and ask how a new, coherent and authentic ‘self’ was fabricated through bodily and affective experiences. This discussion not only reveals the social construction of the self as central to China’s postsocialist governmentality, but also the central role that gender and sexuality play in processes of self-formation.

scholarly journals The Dichotomy of Sexuality

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sophia Fantus
Keyword(s):  
Social Construction ◽  
Social Control ◽  
Sexual Identity ◽  
Best Practice ◽  
Social Categories ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Sexual Identities ◽  
The Social ◽  
Western Perspective ◽  
Epistemological Framework

This paper examines sexuality and the social construction of the sexual binary divide, illustrating how sexual identities have progressed, developed, and transformed.  Social categories have been created as a form of social control and have therefore perpetuated stereotypical attitudes and discriminatory acts.  This paper will illustrate how institutional and individual level harms have occurred due to the continued dichotomization of sexuality; and simultaneously how such categorizations have, in contrast, helped to form supportive and cohesive communities. Concluding, this paper will contend that dichotomous categories leave no room for individuals to question or explore their own sexuality; the sexual divide ignores the changing sexualities within today’s modern western perspective.  Deriving from a social work perspective, this paper argues that a narrative epistemological framework remains the best practice to recognize and address the complex and multifaceted nature of sexual identity.

La medicalizzazione della riproduzione umana: il corpo e il genere

2009 ◽  
pp. 185-201
Author(s):  
Lia Lombardi
Keyword(s):  
Social Construction ◽  
Reproductive Technology ◽  
The Body ◽  
Human Reproduction ◽  
Western Society ◽  
Critical Approach ◽  
The Social ◽  
Biomedical Technologies ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Sociology Of Health

- This article is focussed on the medicalization of human reproduction and its effects on the body and on the gender. Particularly, the analysis is carried under two perspectives. The first one is the social construction and the social control on the body in Western society. Specifically, the question is how medicine surveilles bodies and behaviors of women and men. Moreover, the first part of this article analyses sexualities, reproduction/procreation and gender relationships. The second subject regards how stereotypes on gender and parenthood are connected to the social construction of infertility and of articial reproduction. All the topics are analysed through the lences of the sociology of health and of the body, in connection with the most recent advances in biomedical technologies. The gender perspective and a critical approach are the theoretical mainframes which have driven this research.Keywords: body, Gender, medicalization, human reproduction; reproductive technology, sociology of health.Parole chiave: genere, medicalizzazione, riproduzione umana, tecnologie riproduttive, sociologia della salute.

The Medicalization of Human Reproduction: Body and Gender

2009 ◽  
pp. 172-188
Author(s):  
Lia Lombardi
Keyword(s):  
Social Construction ◽  
Reproductive Technology ◽  
The Body ◽  
Human Reproduction ◽  
Western Society ◽  
Critical Approach ◽  
The Social ◽  
Biomedical Technologies ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Sociology Of Health

- This article is focussed on the medicalization of human reproduction and its effects on the body and on the gender. Particularly, the analysis is carried under two perspectives. The first one is the social construction and the social control on the body in Western society. Specifically, the question is how medicine surveilles bodies and behaviors of women and men. Moreover, the first part of this article analyses sexualities, reproduction/procreation and gender relationships. The second subject regards how stereotypes on gender and parenthood are connected to the social construction of infertility and of articial reproduction. All the topics are analysed through the lences of the sociology of health and of the body, in connection with the most recent advances in biomedical technologies. The gender perspective and a critical approach are the theoretical mainframes which have driven this research.Keywords: body, Gender, medicalization, human reproduction; reproductive technology, sociology of health.Parole chiave: genere, medicalizzazione, riproduzione umana, tecnologie riproduttive, sociologia della salute.

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