Journal articles: 'Anthropology of gender and sexuality'

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Zorn, Jean G. "Gender and sexuality." Reviews in Anthropology 20, no. 3 (February 1992): 179–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00988157.1992.9978002.

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Donnelly, Denise A., Pepper Schwartz, and Virginia Rutter. "The Gender of Sexuality." Journal of Marriage and the Family 61, no. 2 (May 1999): 547. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/353775.

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Manian, Sunita. "I resent society's irrational fear of sex: An intersectional inquiry into youth sexuality in two Indian states." Sexualities 23, no. 7 (October 15, 2019): 1039–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1363460719876812.

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This research investigates attitudes about sex, sexuality and sexual pleasure, as well as awareness regarding reproductive and sexual health among Indian youth. The study takes place against the backdrop of a sea change in India in the last few decades brought about by economic liberalization, accompanied by rapid commercialization and consumerism. This has in turn been accompanied by changes in sexual mores especially among youth in India. Most of the young people I interviewed were either sexually active or would like to be sexually active, outside of the socially prescribed conjugal context. Some of the young men shared with great candor their immense frustration at being unable to find sexual pleasure with a partner. Others had the freedom to explore various aspects of their sexuality; however their sexual behavior was often dangerous because of their lack of knowledge about safe-sex. The experiences of young women were shaped both by their gender and their families' class status. The young people I interviewed, regardless of whether they were sexually active, had one thing in common—namely a profound ignorance about issues related to sex, sexuality and sexual health. Girls and young women in most cases were either denied sexual education or found their ability to access information about sex highly curtailed. However, the narratives presented in this article also problematize easy categorizations of India as being homophobic and intolerant of non-heteronormative sexualities.

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Richardson, Diane. "Sexuality and citizenship." Sexualities 21, no. 8 (June 25, 2018): 1256–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1363460718770450.

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Herdt, Gilbert, William L. Leap, and Melanie Sovine. "Introduction: Anthropology, sexuality, and AIDS." Journal of Sex Research 28, no. 2 (May 1991): 167–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00224499109551603.

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Gill, Lesley. "The Gender/Sexuality Reader: Culture, History, Political Economy:The Gender/Sexuality Reader: Culture, History, Political Economy." American Anthropologist 101, no. 3 (September 1999): 681–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/aa.1999.101.3.681.

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Heinskou, Marie Bruvik. "Sexuality in transit – gender gaming and spaces of sexuality in late modernity." Sexualities 18, no. 7 (February 27, 2015): 885–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1363460714557661.

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Miller, Lisa R. "Single women’s sexualities across the life course: The role of major events, transitions, and turning points." Sexualities 24, no. 1-2 (May 21, 2020): 226–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1363460720922754.

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Most research on women’s sexualities focuses on a single event or developmental period, often failing to document romantic and sexual trajectories over time. Moreover, life course studies of sexuality have not exclusively examined single women, including major life events that may alter their sexual attitudes and behaviors. Using life story interview data with 60 single, heterosexual women between the ages of 18 and 91, I document five common pathways through romantic and sexual life, including opting out of marital relationships, the development of sexual subjectivity, sexual exploration and maintaining independence, sex positivity and increases in sexual communication, and a maintenance of sexual conservatism. The findings also reveal the role of domestic violence, sexual abuse, relationship dissolution, sexually transmitted illnesses, and menopause in altering sexual attitudes and behaviors. This study has several implications for life course studies of intimate relationships and sexuality.

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Stølen, Kristi Anne. "Gender, sexuality and violence in Ecuador*." Ethnos 56, no. 1-2 (January 1991): 82–100. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00141844.1991.9981426.

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Krebbekx, Willemijn. "What else can sex education do? Logics and effects in classroom practices." Sexualities 22, no. 7-8 (November 21, 2018): 1325–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1363460718779967.

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Comprehensive sex education (CSE) has been heralded as effective in promoting sexually healthy behaviour in youth. At the same time, it has also been countered by critique, indicating that CSE is not a neutral vehicle for the transmission of knowledge. To think sex education outside this opposition of health intervention and critique, this article asks: What else can sex education do? Three ethnographic cases from secondary schools in the Netherlands showed the school to be a space/time for sexuality, showed how sexual knowledge is produced and used in class, and how sex education plays into and depends on processes of (gendered) popularity. In addition, the analysis pointed to the ways in which comprehensive sex education in practice (re)produces ethnic characterizations of sexuality. Finally, the analysis of sex education in practice complicated the ways in which sex education is conceptualized and measured as a health intervention.

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Murphy, Marie. "Everywhere and nowhere simultaneously: The ‘absent presence’ of sexuality in medical education." Sexualities 22, no. 1-2 (June 26, 2017): 203–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1363460717708147.

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A comprehensive history of medical sex education in the USA is missing from the literature, and much of the recent literature on sexuality education within medical training in the USA relies on survey research, which reveals little about the nature and content of medical sex education, and the meanings of sexuality that are produced and transmitted within it. In this article I provide a brief historical overview of medical sex education in the USA to provide context for my ethnographic study of the ways in which sexuality education was conceptualized and executed at a top-twenty American medical school. Although faculty members at this medical school believed that sexuality was important to medical practice and thus important to teach about within medical education, teachings about sexuality were fragmented and did not produce a consistent set of messages about what sexuality means or how it might matter to medical practice. I show how formal knowledge about sexuality has been and continues to be as elusive within medical education as anywhere else, and discuss historical continuities in the perceived barriers to providing medical sex education. In addition to increasing our understanding of how medical knowledge about sexuality is produced and transmitted, this research expands the study of sex education beyond contexts in which its intended purpose is to influence the personal behavior of its subjects.

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Wallis, Amy, and Jo VanEvery. "Sexuality in the Primary School." Sexualities 3, no. 4 (November 2000): 409–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/136346000003004003.

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Binnie, Jon. "Locating Economics within Sexuality Studies." Sexualities 11, no. 1-2 (February 2008): 100–103. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/13634607080110010305.

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Saraswati, L. Ayu. "Wikisexuality: Rethinking sexuality in cyberspace." Sexualities 16, no. 5-6 (August 30, 2013): 587–603. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1363460713487368.

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Plante, Rebecca F., and Gary Alan Fine. "Sexuality and reputation: An introduction." Sexualities 20, no. 7 (February 17, 2017): 767–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1363460716679379.

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Hall, Matthew. "Disability, discourse and desire: Analyzing online talk by people with disabilities." Sexualities 21, no. 3 (April 19, 2017): 379–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1363460716688675.

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Fran Vicary, who has had cerebral palsy from birth, recently claimed in the UK newspaper, The Guardian, that most people with a disability seek to express themselves sexually. Arguing from personal experience, she said the expression of sexual desire is a much contested space for those with disabilities because their sexualities and bodies are controlled by broader public discourses that delegitimize and stigmatize their sexual agency and the possibility of pleasure. It is not surprising then that positive and empowering discourses of disability and sexuality are either invisible or missing. Drawing on discourse analysis, the author examines electronic talk by people with disabilities in a disability specific online community website. His analysis shows their rejection of mainstream discourses positioning them as asexual and the deployment of mainstream discourses, which draw on gender, sexuality and intimacy, as well as the circulation of disability-specific sexual pleasure discourses with sex workers and caregivers. The use of social media in expressing marginalized sexual identities is also discussed.

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Shahidian, Hammed. "Gender and Sexuality Among Immigrant Iranians in Canada." Sexualities 2, no. 2 (April 1999): 189–222. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/136346079900200203.

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Murray, Stephen O. "Gender-Mixing Roles, Gender-Crossing Roles, and the Sexuality of Transgendered Roles." Reviews in Anthropology 31, no. 4 (January 2002): 291–308. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00988150214747.

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Patterson-Faye, Courtney J. "‘I like the way you move’: Theorizing fat, black and sexy." Sexualities 19, no. 8 (August 1, 2016): 926–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1363460716640731.

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Moving past conceptualizations of ‘mammy,’ this article discusses fat black female sexuality through experiences of black women in the plus size fashion world. I posit that these women, their clothing, and their bodies’ movement underneath their clothing, subvert previous notions of fatness, blackness and sexuality. By mapping a black feminist lens onto sexual script theory, I analyze in-depth interviews with plus size models, bloggers and designers to show that fat black women and their utilization of clothing both embody and reject mammy, regard sexuality as public and private enterprises of self-reclamation, and subscribe to and complicate cultural norms of fat black (a)sexuality.

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Loeser, Cassandra, Barbara Pini, and Vicki Crowley. "Disability and sexuality: Desires and pleasures." Sexualities 21, no. 3 (April 19, 2017): 255–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1363460716688682.

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There is an ongoing missing discourse of pleasure in studies of sexuality and disability, and considerations of sexual pleasures and sexual desire in the lives of people with disabilities play very little part in public discourse. This opening article analyzes some of the major theoretical influences and debates informing prevailing assumptions about disability and sexuality. An exposition of the theoretical and conceptual terrains that underpin and shape this special issue works to canvas a series of often disparate sites of contestation, and suggests that disabled and sexual embodied subjectivities are much more than ‘asexual’ or ‘hypersexual’ pathological constructions. The articles explore the ways in which the intersection of disability and sexuality involves an understanding of the interlocking discourses of normality, sexuality, able-bodiedness, heteronormativity and desire, which can shape possibilities for sex, sexuality, pleasure and intimacy for people with a disability. What will become evident is that a greater attention to the phenomenology of sexual embodiment, pleasure, desire, and the diverse meanings of intimacy and the erotic, can make significant contributions to social and scholarly analyses of disability and sexuality. The utilization of different methodological approaches that can attend to complexity and diversity in the experience of sex and sexuality further constitutes part of the critique of ableist narratives of the ‘normal’ desiring and desirable subject that cannot account for the intersubjective conditions in which embodied subjectivity is constructed and pleasure experienced.

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McEwen, Haley. "Transatlantic Knowledge Politics of Sexuality." Critical Philosophy of Race 4, no. 2 (July 1, 2016): 239–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.5325/critphilrace.4.2.239.

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Abstract Contestations over the rights of sexual minorities and gender-nonconforming people in Africa are profoundly shaped by two discourses that both emerge from polarized domestic political debates in the United States: a human rights–centered discourse of “LGBT*I” identity politics that promotes visibility and equal protections and privileges for lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans*, and intersex individuals; and a Christonormative “family values” agenda that promotes the heterosexual nuclear family as the foundation of civilization. Analysis considers these contemporary discourses in relation to entangled colonial constructions of white supremacy and heteropatriarchy used to justify the conquest and exploitation of Africa. This article takes particular interest in the power relations that are (re)constituted through these discourses so as to uncover the underlying interests at stake within them. Through consultation with critiques advanced within critical race and critical queer theory, and critical philosophical arguments on the epistemic dimensions of racialized, sexed, and gendered oppressions, it is argued that these discourses advance U.S. hegemonic interests and reinscribe Western hegemony. It is concluded that struggles for equality among sexual minorities and gender-nonconforming people must be approached as part-and-parcel of decolonial struggles to dismantle white supremacist and Western structures of oppression.

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Toft, Alex, Anita Franklin, and Emma Langley. "‘You're not sure that you are gay yet’: The perpetuation of the ‘phase’ in the lives of young disabled LGBT + people." Sexualities 23, no. 4 (April 29, 2019): 516–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1363460719842135.

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Contemporary discourse on sexuality presents a picture of fluidity and malleability, with research continuing to frame sexuality as negotiable, within certain parameters and social structures. Such investigation is fraught with difficulties, due in part to the fact that as one explores how identity shifts, language terms such as ‘phase’ emerge conjuring images of a definitive path towards an end-goal, as young people battle through a period of confusion and emerge at their true or authentic identity. Seeing sexuality and gender identity as a phase can delegitimise and prevent access to support, which is not offered due to the misconception that it is not relevant and that one can grow out of being LGBT+. This article explores the lives of disabled LGBT + young people from their perspective, using their experiences and stories to explore their identities and examine how this links to the misconception of their sexuality and gender as a phase. Taking inspiration from the work of scholars exploring sexual and gender identity, and sexual storytelling; the article is framed by intersectionality which allows for a detailed analysis of how identities interact and inform, when used as an analytic tool. The article calls for a more nuanced understanding of sexuality and gender in the lives of disabled LGBT + young people, which will help to reduce inequality and exclusion.

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Bucholtz, Mary. "Queerly Phrased: Language, Gender, and Sexuality:Queerly Phrased: Language, Gender, and Sexuality." American Anthropologist 101, no. 4 (December 1999): 855–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/aa.1999.101.4.855.

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Tambling, Jeremy. "`Savage Nights': Sexuality and the City." Sexualities 5, no. 1 (February 2002): 114–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1363460702005001007.

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Radner, Hilary. "Compulsory Sexuality and the Desiring Woman." Sexualities 11, no. 1-2 (February 2008): 94–100. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/13634607080110010304.

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Binnie, Jon. "Class, sexuality and space: A comment." Sexualities 14, no. 1 (February 2011): 21–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1363460710390567.

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Farhall, Kate. "‘Girl-on-girl confessions!’ Changing representations of female–female sexuality in two Australian women’s magazines." Sexualities 21, no. 1-2 (March 17, 2017): 212–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1363460716679388.

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This article undertakes a feminist discourse analysis of references to female–female sexuality in selected editions of two Australian women’s magazines published in 1993, 2003 and 2013. It identifies three distinct phases in the discursive evolution of female–female sexuality: the lesbian chic era of the 1990s, the rise of heteroflexibility at the turn of the century and the advent of the girl crush discourse in the 21st-century. The article examines each phase chronologically, showing that despite seemingly offering acceptance, in reality these discourses portray female–female sexuality as an adjunct to heterosexuality. In this way, they fail to disrupt heteropatriarchal sexual norms, instead privileging male desire and presenting lesbian sexuality as both a performance and a vehicle of self-objectification designed to garner male attention, or as a heterosexual flirtation that is easily discarded.

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Schutz, Paul J. "En-Gendering Creation Anew: Rethinking Ecclesial Statements on Science, Gender, and Sexuality with William R. Stoeger, SJ." Horizons 48, no. 1 (May 17, 2021): 34–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/hor.2021.1.

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Despite Pope John Paul II's call for “intense dialogue” between theology and science that excludes “unreasonable interpretations” of Scripture, ecclesial statements on gender and sexuality—including John Paul II's own works—deploy an interpretation of the literal meaning of Genesis to perpetuate a complementarian anthropology that contradicts scientific insights about the human body. After illustrating the implications of this hermeneutical inconsistency, this article presents Jesuit astronomer William Stoeger's theological method and hermeneutics of the full flourishing of life as an alternative approach, which fulfills John Paul II's vision for dialogue and paves a way toward reimagining church teachings on gender and sexuality.

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Roodsaz, Rahil, and An Van Raemdonck. "The Traps of International Scripts: Making a Case for a Critical Anthropology of Gender and Sexuality in Development." Social Inclusion 6, no. 4 (November 22, 2018): 16–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.17645/si.v6i4.1511.

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In this article, we look at colonialities of gender and sexuality as concepts employed in international aid and development. These international arenas reveal not only strong reiterations of modernist linear thinking and colonial continuities but also provide insights into the complexities of the implementation and vernacularisation of gender and sexuality in practices of development. Using a critical anthropological perspective, we discuss case studies based on our own research in Egypt and Bangladesh to illustrate the importance of unpacking exclusionary mechanisms of gender and sexuality scripts in the promotion of women’s rights and sexual and reproductive health and rights in postcolonial development contexts. We provide a conceptual analysis of decolonial feminist attempts at moving beyond the mere critique of development to enable a more inclusive conversation in the field of development. To work towards this goal, we argue, a critical anthropological approach proves promising in allowing a politically-sensitive, ethical, and critical engagement with the Other.

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LeMaster. "Gender, Kinship, and Sexuality in Native American Societies." Journal of American Ethnic History 33, no. 4 (2014): 94. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/jamerethnhist.33.4.0094.

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McMullen, Ann. "Two-Spirit People: Native American Gender Identity, Sexuality, and Spirituality:Two-Spirit People: Native American Gender Identity, Sexuality, and Spirituality." American Anthropologist 101, no. 1 (March 1999): 210–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/aa.1999.101.1.210.

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Jones, Rebecca L. "Life course perspectives on (bi)sexuality: Methodological tools to deprivilege current identities." Sexualities 22, no. 7-8 (November 20, 2018): 1071–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1363460718792506.

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Scholars of sexuality have known for many years that sexual identity claims do not map neatly on to sexual histories. However, many studies continue to use currently claimed sexual identities as the basis for data collection and analysis, which can erase this complexity, particularly in relation to bisexuality. This article identifies four methodological techniques that help to operationalise theoretical sensitivity around the complex relationship between identities and histories. It does so by bringing together life course perspectives and two mixed methods datasets from older people with bisexual histories. Combining life course perspectives with these unusual datasets makes evident the particular way in which moment-in-time perspectives oversimplify sexuality and privilege monosexual identities. A life course approach thus helps to explain a long-standing puzzle in the study of sexuality: the relative under-claiming of bisexual identities compared to the prevalence of bisexual behaviours. Furthermore, it offers methodological tools that facilitate richer theorisations of sexuality more widely.

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Whitehead, Jaye Cee, and Jennifer Thomas. "Sexuality and the ethics of body modification: Theorizing the situated relationships among gender, sexuality and the body." Sexualities 16, no. 3-4 (May 10, 2013): 383–400. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1363460713479755.

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Seddon, Merilyn, Narelle Warren, and Peter W. New. "‘I don’t get a climax any more at all’: Pleasure and non-traumatic spinal cord damage." Sexualities 21, no. 3 (April 19, 2017): 287–302. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1363460716688681.

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Women typically report reduced participation in sex and satisfaction with their sexuality following Spinal Cord injuries (SCI) due to changes in sensation and physical functioning. Psychosocial factors are also important but, despite significant differences in the patterning and impact of SCIs by aetiology, these have not been explored in the context of Spinal Cord Damage (SCD, non-traumatic SCI). This article seeks to gain insight into the experience of sexual pleasure for women. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 12 women (mean age 67.8 years) who had experienced SCD. Sexuality after SCD occurred in a context of disrupted normality. The impact of physical impairment and regained functionality was significant, but the effect of social constructs regarding sexuality, disability, gender and aging were more profound, with rigid adherence to norms by participants and others typically serving as barriers to sexual pleasure. In contrast, flexible norms served to enhance sexual satisfaction. By supporting women to express their sexuality in changed circumstances, there is a role for formal services to better support women’s sexual adjustment and wellbeing after SCD.

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TAGGART, JAMES M. "Gender segregation and cultural constructions of sexuality in two Hispanic societies." American Ethnologist 19, no. 1 (February 1992): 75–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/ae.1992.19.1.02a00050.

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Lewis, Rachel A. "“Gay? Prove it”: The politics of queer anti-deportation activism." Sexualities 17, no. 8 (October 31, 2014): 958–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1363460714552253.

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This article examines how gender, sexuality, race and class intersect in queer asylum claims to influence the perceived credibility of gay and lesbian asylum applicants. Building on recent scholarship in queer migration studies that considers the role of gender and sexuality in the social construction of migrant illegality, this article explores how practices of credibility assessment in the political asylum process produce women and sexual minorities as deportable subjects. As I argue, the tactics utilized by gay male asylum applicants to resist deportation show how practices of credibility assessment in the political asylum process are linked to the state’s reproduction of sexual citizenship narratives, narratives that have a disproportionately negative impact upon queer female migrants of color. Accounting for the intersections among gender, sexuality, race and class in influencing the perceived credibility of gay and lesbian asylum applicants is thus crucial for conceptualizing alternative forms of queer anti-deportation activism.

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Fahs, Breanne, Rebecca F. Plante, and Sara I. McClelland. "Working at the crossroads of pleasure and danger: Feminist perspectives on doing critical sexuality studies." Sexualities 21, no. 4 (November 2, 2017): 503–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1363460717713743.

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For those entering the field of sexuality studies, there is often little advice or guidance on the many facets of the work, some of which are pleasurable and some of which are dangerous. Drawing from our personal and professional conflicts surrounding our work as feminist psychologists and sociologists studying women’s sexuality, we extend Carole Vance’s (1984) claims about pleasure and danger by arguing that, for the sex researcher, pleasure and danger are in fact inverted. That which should give us pleasure (e.g. having our work promoted to the public; teaching critical material about sexuality; thinking deeply about our personal relationships) ends up feeling dangerous, and that which should feel dangerous (e.g. saying and doing and working on taboo things; calling out homophobia, racism, classism, and sexism) ends up giving us pleasure. We examine several areas where we experience personal and professional costs and benefits of doing feminist sex research, including relationships with partners, communication with research participants, pedagogical challenges and conflicts, the interface between the sex-researcher identity and university/institutional practices, and, finally, our interface with the public world and the mass media. In doing so, we aim to use our personal experiences to highlight just a few of the areas that emerging sexuality researchers may encounter. In addition, we extend Vance’s framework of pleasure and danger beyond the experiences of women having sex and into the realm of those seeking to understand, research, write about, theorize, and assess the complicated terrain of women’s sexuality.

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Jones, Angela. "Sex is not a problem: The erasure of pleasure in sexual science research." Sexualities 22, no. 4 (October 18, 2018): 643–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1363460718760210.

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Guided by feminist and a queer intersectional framework, this article explores the discursive production of sexuality in contemporary sexual science research. Specifically, this article examines the absence of pleasure as a topic in research on human sexuality in the sexual sciences. Articles from 2010 to 2015 were sampled from The Journal of Sex Research (JSR) N = 300 and discourse analysis was performed. Contemporary research on sexuality in this journal focuses on risk, disease, and dysfunction and reinforces heteronormativity. This focus examines sexuality from a limited and negative vantage point and, as a result, does not provide us with a holistic portrait of human sexuality. Researchers must discuss pleasure and should make greater efforts to ensure more inclusivity and diversity around issues of gender, race, nationality, age, and sexual identity. Importantly, I show how the three main focal points of this article (the erasure of sexual pleasure, the reproduction of heteronormativity, and the erasure of marginalized racial, gendered, classed, and sexual identities) are mutually reinforcing. Scholars in the sexual sciences can avoid these issues by using feminist and queer intersectional frameworks. Finally, because the empirical findings of scientific research often inform political policy, healthcare policies, workplace policies, and larger societal understandings of human life and experience, we must appreciate that the limited frameworks used by sexual scientists will have an impact on people’s lives and their access to the resources and services they need to survive, and to lead pleasurable—not just healthy—lives.

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Bonifazio, Paola, Nicoletta Marini-Maio, and Ellen Nerenberg. "Our gender/sexuality/italy: Collaboration as Feminist Practice." Italianist 41, no. 2 (May 4, 2021): 229–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02614340.2021.1932069.

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Baas, Michiel. "Gender, Sexuality, and Society in Indonesia." Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde 174, no. 4 (November 20, 2018): 481–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/22134379-17404004.

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Duff, Brian. "Confession, sexuality and pornography as sacred language." Sexualities 13, no. 6 (December 2010): 685–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1363460710384557.

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Wilkins, Amy C., and Sarah A. Miller. "Secure girls: Class, sexuality, and self-esteem." Sexualities 20, no. 7 (February 17, 2017): 815–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1363460716658422.

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Public discourse is replete with talk about the fragility of young women’s self-esteem, linking poor self-concept to a range of social problems associated with girlhood. We know little about the impact of these ideas on young women. In this article, we examine interviews with 66 girls, aged 14–22, to understand how they talk about the link between self-esteem and sexual expression in everyday life. We find that girls’ talk about self-esteem uses classed meanings that unintentionally reinforce and extend the role of sexuality in girls’ status hierarchies, benefitting those with more class resources, while policing all girls’ abilities to claim sexual agency.

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Glen, Cameron. "S Seidman, The Social Construction of Sexuality." Sexualities 20, no. 5-6 (December 2, 2016): 762–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1363460716676991.

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Paasonen, Susanna. "Many splendored things: Sexuality, playfulness and play." Sexualities 21, no. 4 (November 8, 2017): 537–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1363460717731928.

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This article makes a theoretical argument for the productivity of the notions of playfulness and play in feminist and queer studies of sexuality. Defined as a mode of sensory openness and drive towards improvisation, playfulness can be seen as central to a range of sexual activities from fumbling, random motions to elaborate, rehearsed scenarios. Play in the realm of sexuality involves experimentations with what bodies can feel and do. As pleasurable activity practised for its own sake, play involves the exploration of different bodily capacities, appetites, orientations and connections. Understood in this vein, play is not the opposite of seriousness or simply synonymous with fun. Driven by the quest for bodily pleasure, play may just as well be strained, dark and hurtful in the forms that it takes and the sensory intensities that it engenders. This article argues that the mode of playfulness and acts of play allow for pushing previously perceived and imagined horizons of embodied potentiality in terms of sexual routines and identifications alike. It examines the productive avenues that the notions of playfulness and play open up in conceptualising the urgency of sexual pleasures, the contingency of desires and their congealment in categories of identity.

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Flore, Jacinthe. "Pharmaceutical intimacy: Managing female sexuality through Addyi." Sexualities 21, no. 4 (November 10, 2017): 569–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1363460717731933.

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In August 2015, the US Food and Drug Administration approved the production of Addyi (flibanserin), a pharmaceutical tablet for premenopausal women distressed by a lack of sexual desire. During clinical trials, reports from research participants revealed minimal efficacy: an estimated 0.8 increase in ‘satisfying sexual events’ per month. This article explores the emergence of Addyi as a case study of how this technique produces a particular subject of pharmaceutical knowledge. It examines the pharmaceutical tablet as a technique for the management of sexual appetite. I consider the significance of the act of pharmaceutical ingestion on the embodied subjectivity of the consumer and the chemical constitution of the human body.

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Hubbard, Phil. "Geography and sexuality: Why space (still) matters." Sexualities 21, no. 8 (September 4, 2018): 1295–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1363460718779209.

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Taylor, Yvette. "Getting on? Doing sexuality then and now." Sexualities 21, no. 8 (September 4, 2018): 1379–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1363460718785107.

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Arjmand, Reza, and Maryam Ziari. "Sexuality and concealment among Iranian young women." Sexualities 23, no. 3 (November 21, 2018): 393–405. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1363460718797047.

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Criminalization of sexual relations outside the institution of marriage in Iran fosters – among other means – concealment as one of the safest methods to undermine social and legal impediments. In a context where any alternative practices of sexualities are subject to persecution, sexual concealments are applied as tactics for survival. The female body in such a normative-laden society is conditioned by its “openness” which makes it a subject of honor for family and kin and core for the management of desire and regulating the intimate for the theocratic state. Based on life stories of young women who have had pre-marital sexual relations in Tehran, this article addresses sexual concealment as the main method used by those women. Findings of the study suggest a three-fold model of concealment practiced in various social settings. Body concealment which was encouraged by the families and authorities to reduce the visibility of the female body during adolescence, engenders other types of concealment. Lesbian-like practices were utilized by women in homosocial settings to undermine the heteronormative social structure. Concealment of sexual orientations, desires and practices was applied to “keep the order of things in place” and to undermine the repressive policies and practices based on the socio-religious normative.

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Skårner, Anette, Sven-Axel Månsson, and Bengt Svensson. "‘Better safe than sorry’: Women’s stories of sex and intimate relationships on the path out of drug abuse." Sexualities 20, no. 3 (November 22, 2016): 324–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1363460716665782.

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This article focuses on the role of sexuality and intimate relationships during women’s exit processes from drug abuse. Drawing from qualitative interviews with Swedish women the article explores how their sexual practice is played out both during drug use and in the new drug-free life situation. The conflictual transition process evolves around the individual’s attempts to adapt to various sexual scripts made available to them. An element of shame regarding past sexual experiences is enforced by a strong desire to create a new identity as ‘ordinary’. The safest option then is to abstain from sex even if it may lead to frustration and longing. To some, toning down sexuality is a welcome respite, to others a meaningless wait. Why does the beautiful, lovely sexuality never come?

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Fox, Nick J., and Clare Bale. "Bodies, pornography and the circumscription of sexuality: A new materialist study of young people’s sexual practices." Sexualities 21, no. 3 (May 31, 2017): 393–409. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1363460717699769.

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We explore ‘sexualisation’ from a new materialist position, as an assemblage of bodies, things, ideas and social institutions. Interview data on 22 young people’s sexual activities reflect a range of relations and ‘affects’ contributing to the sexualisation of young people, including peers, social events, alcohol, media, popular culture and pornography. While a ‘sexualisation-assemblage’ may produce any and all capacities in bodies, it is typically blocked and restricted into narrow and circumscribed capacities. Limited and unimaginative practices portrayed in sexualised media and pornography narrow definitions of sexuality, and may reproduce and reinforce misogyny, sexual objectification and circumscribed sexualities. We argue for sexualities education for both children and adults that can ‘re-sexualise’ all our bodies.

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Journal articles on the topic 'Anthropology of gender and sexuality'

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