Prácticas significantes: una investigación híbrida sobre la estructura simbólica de la sexualidad masculina=Significant practices: a hybrid research about the symbolic structure of male sexuality

Cuestiones de género de la igualdad y la diferencia ◽

10.18002/cg.v0i16.6963 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 802

Author(s):

Francisco Holgado

Keyword(s):

Feminist Theory ◽

Hegemonic Masculinity ◽

The Body ◽

Critical Discourse ◽

Male Sexuality ◽

Sexual Freedom ◽

Symbolic Structure ◽

Las Mujeres ◽

Hybrid Methodology

ResumenEste artículo se propone indagar sobre la construcción y funcionamiento de la masculinidad hegemónica en el ámbito de la sexualidad y desde su interacción con el cuerpo de las mujeres. Con dicho objetivo, se recurrirá a una metodología híbrida que tomará fuentes filosóficas, antropológicas, artísticas y estadísticas, prestando especial atención al ámbito contemporáneo español y articulando un discurso crítico que dividirá su propuesta en tres razonamientos principales. El primero, como una breve introducción a los presupuestos simbólicos de la sexualidad masculina. El segundo, problematizando los peligros y paradojas del concepto de libertad sexual en diálogo con la teoría feminista. Y, el último, planteando el consumo de pornografía y el de prostitución como prácticas significantes imprescindibles en el posicionamiento jerárquico supremacista de la masculinidad hegemónica.AbstractThis article aims to investigate the construction and functioning of hegemonic masculinity in the field of sexuality and its interaction with the body of women. With this objective, a hybrid methodology will be used together with philosophical, anthropological, artistic and statistical sources, paying special attention to the contemporary Spanish environment and articulating a critical discourse that will divide its proposal into three main arguments. The first one, as a brief introduction to the symbolic presuppositions of male sexuality. The second one, problematizing the dangers and paradoxes of the concept of sexual freedom in dialogue with the feminist theory. And the last one, setting out the consumption of pornography and prostitution as essential significant practices in the supremacist hierarchical positioning of hegemonic masculinity.

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¿Qué decimos las feministas sobre la pornografía? Los orígenes de un debate

La Manzana de la Discordia ◽

10.25100/lamanzanadeladiscordia.v5i1.1526 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 5 (1) ◽

pp. 7 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Nancy Prada Prada

Keyword(s):

Feminist Theory ◽

Critical Discourse ◽

Feminist Movement ◽

Gender Perspective ◽

Cultural Phenomenon ◽

Las Mujeres ◽

Siglo Xx

Resumen: La teoría feminista ha cruzado su miradaa la pornografía como fenómeno cultural con laperspectiva de género, construyendo una crítica particularque está lejos de ser uniforme y toma mejor elcarácter de un debate. Dicho debate se enmarca en unomás amplio que ha sido descrito por algunas autorascomo la tensión placer – peligro que subyace a lasexualidad femenina. Sus orígenes más claros tienen lugaren Estados Unidos a finales de los setenta y comienzosde los ochenta del siglo XX, favorecido por el carácterde fenómeno de masas que cobra allí la pornografía, ylas primeras respuestas explícitamente abolicionistas alas que se ve enfrentada. Dentro del feminismo estadounidense,surge por aquel entonces una fracción importanteque se manifiesta en contra de la pornografía, a laque define como violencia contra las mujeres en sí misma.A la par, y como respuesta a la campaña abolicionistade dichas antipornógrafas, otro grueso sector feministaseñalará los riesgos de dicha postura, desvirtuando lapretendida conexión entre pornografía y violenciacontra las mujeres. Recrear los principales argumentosde ambas partes es el objetivo de este artículo.Palabras Clave: Feminismo, pornografía, sexualidad,pro-Sex, antipornógrafas.Abstract: Feminist theory approached pornographyas a cultural phenomenon from the gender perspective,building a specific critical discourse that, far from beinguniform, has more the nature of a debate. This debate ispart of a bigger one that some authors have described asthe pleasure - danger tension that underlies femininesexuality. Its most evident origins are in the United Statesof the seventies and eighties, when pornography becamea mass phenomenon and the first reactions it faced wereexplicitly abolitionist. At that time an important fractionof the American feminist movement rose againstpornography, which it defined as violence againstwomen. At the same time, as a response to the abolitionistcampaign of the «anti-pornographers», anothersubstantial feminist sector stressed the risks of suchposture, criticizing the supposed link between pornographyand violence. The scope of this article is to exposethe main arguments that each side employed in thisdebate.Key words: Feminism, pornography, sexuality, pro-Sex, anti-pornography

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Rabbinic Tales of Destruction

10.1093/oso/9780190600471.001.0001 ◽

2017 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Julia Watts Belser

Keyword(s):

Feminist Theory ◽

Second Temple ◽

The Body ◽

Critical Discourse ◽

Body Politics ◽

Sex And Gender ◽

Power Politics ◽

Forced Prostitution ◽

Female Bodies ◽

And Gender

Rabbinic Tales of Destruction examines early Jewish accounts of the Roman conquest of Jerusalem from the perspective of the wounded body and the scarred land. Amidst stories saturated with sexual violence, enslavement, forced prostitution, disability, and bodily risk, the book argues that rabbinic narrative wrestles with the brutal body costs of Roman imperial domination. It brings disability studies, feminist theory, and new materialist ecological thought to accounts of rabbinic catastrophe, revealing how rabbinic discourses of gender, sexuality, and the body are shaped in the shadow of empire. Focusing on the Babylonian Talmud’s longest account of the destruction of the Second Temple, the book reveals the distinctive sex and gender politics of Bavli Gittin. While Palestinian tales frequently castigate the “wayward woman” for sexual transgressions that imperil the nation, Bavli Gittin’s stories resist portraying women’s sexuality as a cause of catastrophe. Rather than castigate women’s beauty as the cause of sexual sin, Bavli Gittin’s tales express a strikingly egalitarian discourse that laments the vulnerability of both male and female bodies before the conqueror. Bavli Gittin’s body politics align with a significant theological reorientation. Bavli Gittin does not explain catastrophe as divine chastisement. Instead of imagining God as the architect of Jewish suffering, it evokes God’s empathy with the subjugated Jewish body and forges a sharp critique of empire. Its critical discourse aims to pierce the power politics of Roman conquest, to protest the brutality of imperial dominance, and to make plain the scar that Roman violence leaves upon Jewish flesh.

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The Meaning of Children's Poetry: A Cognitive Approach

International Research in Children s Literature ◽

10.3366/ircl.2013.0094 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 6 (2) ◽

pp. 127-142 ◽

Cited By ~ 8

Author(s):

Karen Coats

Keyword(s):

Crucial Role ◽

The Body ◽

Critical Discourse ◽

Holding Environment ◽

Cognitive Poetics ◽

Cognitive Approach ◽

Communal Life ◽

Clear Sense ◽

Critical Attention ◽

Children's Poetry

Critical attention to children's poetry has been hampered by the lack of a clear sense of what a children's poem is and how children's poetry should be valued. Often, it is seen as a lesser genre in comparison to poetry written for adults. This essay explores the premises and contradictions that inform existing critical discourse on children's poetry and asserts that a more effective way of viewing children's poetry can be achieved through cognitive poetics rather than through comparisons with adult poetry. Arguing that children's poetry preserves the rhythms and pleasures of the body in language and facilitates emotional and physical attunement with others, the essay examines the crucial role children's poetry plays in creating a holding environment in language to help children manage their sensory environments, map and regulate their neurological functions, contain their existential anxieties, and participate in communal life.

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What does it Mean to be a Man? Trans Masculinities, Bodily Practices, and Reflexive Embodiment

Men and Masculinities ◽

10.1177/1097184x211008519 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 1097184X2110085

Author(s):

Sofia Aboim ◽

Pedro Vasconcelos

Keyword(s):

United Kingdom ◽

Hegemonic Masculinity ◽

The Body ◽

The Political ◽

The United Kingdom ◽

Reflexive Practice ◽

Bodily Experiences ◽

To Come

Confronted with the centrality of the body for trans-masculine individuals interviewed in the United Kingdom and Portugal, we explore how bodily-reflexive practices are central for doing masculinity. Following Connell’s early insight that bodies needed to come back to the political and sociological agendas, we propose that bodily-reflexive practice is a concept suited to account for the production of trans-masculinities. Although multiple, the journeys of trans-masculine individuals demonstrate how bodily experiences shape and redefine masculinities in ways that illuminate the nexus between bodies, embodiments, and discursive enactments of masculinity. Rather than oppositions between bodily conformity to and transgression of the norms of hegemonic masculinity, often encountered in idealizations of the medicalized transsexual against the genderqueer rebel, lived bodily experiences shape masculinities beyond linear oppositions. Tensions between natural and technological, material and discursive, or feminine and masculine were keys for understanding trans-masculine narratives about the body, embodiment, and identity.

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Embracing a New Day

Journal of Bodies, Sexualities, and Masculinities ◽

10.3167/jbsm.2021.020203 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 2 (2) ◽

pp. 10-38

Author(s):

Phillip Joy ◽

Matthew Numer ◽

Sara F. L. Kirk ◽

Megan Aston

Keyword(s):

Body Image ◽

Discourse Analysis ◽

Critical Discourse Analysis ◽

Queer Theory ◽

Gay Men ◽

Hegemonic Masculinity ◽

Critical Discourse ◽

Structured Interviews ◽

The City

The construction of masculinities is an important component of the bodies and lives of gay men. The role of gay culture on body standards, body dissatisfaction, and the health of gay men was explored using poststructuralism and queer theory within an arts-based framework. Nine gay men were recruited within the city of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Participants were asked to photograph their beliefs, values, and practices relating to their bodies and food. Semi-structured interviews were conducted, using the photographs as guides. Data were analyzed by critical discourse analysis and resulted in three overarching threads of discourse including: (1) Muscles: The Bigger the Better, (2) The Silence of Hegemonic Masculinity, and (3) Embracing a New Day. Participants believed that challenging hegemonic masculinity was a way to work through body image tension.

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Feminist Theory

The Oxford Handbook of Virginia Woolf ◽

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198811589.013.32 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 488-503

Author(s):

Jean Mills

Keyword(s):

Feminist Theory ◽

Political Thought ◽

Life Writing ◽

The Body ◽

Feminist Politics ◽

Feminist Thought ◽

Feminist Discourse ◽

Women's Lives ◽

Feminist Community ◽

Critical Responses

This chapter examines Virginia Woolf’s foundational role in the development of feminist theory, placing her theoretical positions on women’s lives and life-writing, privacy, the body, and self-expression in dialogue with a diverse and actively changing continuum of feminist thought. Focusing on the return of rage to the forefront of feminist discourse and social media’s effect upon feminist politics, the chapter chronicles the changing critical responses to Woolf’s feminisms, in relation to her positions on feminist identities and feminist community. The chapter also investigates the ways in which women of colour feminists disclosed Woolf’s racialized self and racist thinking to assess the place of Woolf’s feminism in contemporary political thought. From issues seeking to reconcile and value difference and diversity with the uses of ambivalence and calls for unity and integration, the chapter places the concepts and vocabulary of feminist theory within the context of Virginia Woolf’s work and example.

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Cuerpo indeterminado: La precariedad del cuerpo en el discurso feminista

Revista de la Academia ◽

10.25074/0196318.0.47 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 20 ◽

pp. 47

Author(s):

María Isabel Peña Aguado

Keyword(s):

Feminist Theory ◽

Queer Theory ◽

Female Body ◽

The Body ◽

Philosophical Tradition ◽

Font Size ◽

Feminist Discourse ◽

Feminist Movements ◽

Cuerpo Femenino

La teoría feminista heredó de una tradición filosófica hostil la identificación de cuerpo y mujer. Partiendo de esta identificación de mujer y cuerpo es comprensible que un cuestionamiento del concepto ‘mujer’ influya asimismo en el lugar que va a encontrar el cuerpo dentro del movimiento y teoría feministas. Ese lugar será diferente dependiendo de las diversas reivindicaciones que marcan las diferencias entre los distintos feminismos y teorías queer. La pregunta que se plantea es hasta qué punto la precariedad del cuerpo femenino dentro de la misma teoría feminista es consecuencia del cuestionamiento del concepto de mujer o si, por el contrario, no será más bien el rechazo a una realidad corporal concreta lo que ha permitido y ayudado a desarmar los conceptos de ‘mujer’ y ‘mujeres’ hasta el punto de considerarlos como innecesario para el mismo discurso y políticas feministas contemporáneos.Palabras claves: cuerpo, mujeres, feminismo, Teoría Queer Indeterminacy of the body: precariousness of body in the feminist discourseFeminist theory inherited the identification of woman and body from a hostile philosophical tradition. Given this identification, it is understandable that a questioning of the concept ‚woman‘ also influences the place that the body will find in the feminist movements and theories. The question that arises is how far the precariousness of the female body within feminist theory itself is the result of a questioning of the concept of ‘woman’ or whether, on the contrary, it is the rejection of a concrete corporal reality which has enabled and helped to disarm the concepts of ‚woman‘ and ‚women‘ to the point of considering them unnecessary for contemporary feminist discourse and politics. Keywords: body, women, feminism, Queer Theory

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A Critical Discourse Analysis on the Framing of the Feminization of Forced Displacement

10.32920/ryerson.14656470.v1 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Samantha DeBoer

Keyword(s):

Discourse Analysis ◽

Critical Discourse Analysis ◽

Feminist Theory ◽

Critical Discourse ◽

Discursive Practice ◽

Major Research ◽

Forced Displacement ◽

Gender Binary ◽

Global Feminism ◽

Women And Girls

The Major Research Paper seeks to examine the discursive practices that frame the issue of the feminization of forced displacement and construct representations of forcibly displaced women. It will examine the discourse that constructs representations of forcibly displaced women, which has implications for their protection and treatment in society. Forcibly displaced women are victimized through the representational discourse in terms of how they are spoken about and their visual depictions (Johnson, 2011). Based on feminist theory, the conceptual framework of the gender binary, gender and cultural essentialism, representations of victims, the discourse of victimization, and global feminism will be applied to a critical discourse analysis of the UHCR Handbook for the Protection of Women and Girls. This paper argues that the linguistic constructs and discursive practice contribute to misrepresentations of forcibly displaced women.

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Silencio, cuerpo y baile: el lugar que ocupa un signo en el baile flamenco

Revista de Investigación sobre Flamenco "La Madrugá" ◽

10.6018/flamenco.378231 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 39-55

Author(s):

Gabriel Vaudagna

Keyword(s):

The Body ◽

The Feminine ◽

Las Mujeres

Silencio, cuerpo y baile propone una mirada sobre los signos utilizados en el baile flamenco, observación que apela a la reflexión. ¿Qué es el silencio? Cómo opera en el cuerpo y cómo el flamenco lo necesita para crear. Aquí se advierte una tensión entre significado y significante, característica que determina el estilo y define el código.Entender el silencio y su uso en el flamenco es traducir el signo, entablar el diálogo entre cante y baile para que ese espacio llamado silencio exista, determinado a la vez qué es flamenco y qué no lo es. Entonces, el silencio se vuelve legible y construye un signo que le da identidad al propio baile.Podríamos inferir que por oposición al sonido -asociado a lo masculino-, el silencio también está asociado a lo femenino, por lo cual nuestro significante comporta un género. Lo femenino y masculino en la danza lo establecen el tipo de movimiento, lineal, recto o curvo y sinuoso, pero aquí el sonido de los pies se establece como mundo habitado por hombres mientras el movimiento de brazos les pertenece a las mujeres. Aunque esta ruptura pareciera ser más una construcción del propio signo creado para el baile, que una cuestión del género de la propia danza. Silence, body and dance offers a look at the signs used in flamenco dancing, an observation that appeals to reflection. What is silence? How it operates in the body and how flamenco needs it to create. Here there is a tension between meaning and signifier, a characteristic that determines the style and defines the codeUnderstanding silence and its use in flamenco is translating the sign, engaging the dialogue between singing and dancing so that this space called silence exists, determined at the same time what is flamenco and what is not. Then, the silence becomes readable and builds a sign that gives identity to the dance itself.We could infer that in opposition to sound -associated with the masculine-, silence is also associated with the feminine, for which our signifier implies a genre. The feminine and masculine in dance is established by the type of movement, linear, straight or curved and sinuous, but here the sound of the feet is established as a world inhabited by men while the movement of arms belongs to women. Although this rupture seems to be more a construction of the own sign created for the dance, than a question of the genre of the dance itself.

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REPRESENTATION OF BANGKA BELITUNG’S WOMEN ON NOVELS WRITTEN BY BANGKA BELITUNG’S FEMALE AUTHORS: FEMINISIM STUDIES

JURNAL BASIS ◽

10.33884/basisupb.v8i1.2703 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 8 (1) ◽

pp. 1

Author(s):

Andri Fernanda ◽

Ranto Ranto

Keyword(s):

Critical Discourse Analysis ◽

Feminist Theory ◽

Gender Inequality ◽

Gender Issues ◽

The Other ◽

Critical Discourse ◽

Patriarchal System ◽

Female Authors ◽

Qualitative Descriptive ◽

Descriptive Method

The goal of this study was to break down gender issues and stereotypes towards women constructed in Bangka Belitung society from the perspective of female authors. In analyzing the data, researchers carried out a qualitative descriptive method with feminist theory. The researchers also conducted critical discourse analysis on writings that have been published by Bangka Belitung’s female authors. The results showed that there were still gender inequality and inferiority of women in society. The identity crisis faced by women when they are not married since marriage is seen as an ideal as well as a complement to their life as real women in society. On the other hand, the picture of how women had no rights over themselves was demonstrated in a situation when matchmaking and marriage were performed one-sidedly and suddenly, women did not have enough power to question these, even refused them. Besides, how strong a patriarchal system and culture was shaped by women, their closest people and the community was proven in the novels of the Bangka Belitung’s female authors.

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