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Ningsih, Putri Setia. "Wacana Otonomi Seksualitas Perempuan: Sisilism Menolak Standar Ganda." Calathu: Jurnal Ilmu Komunikasi 4, no. 2 (January 20, 2023): 93–108. http://dx.doi.org/10.37715/calathu.v4i2.3316.

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Sexuality is an entity that is fluid and socially defined over a particular space and time. As a discourse, power/knowledge relations basically define sexuality. This research aims to explain how Sisil conveys the discourse of female sexuality on her Sisilism YouTube channel. Sisil and her YouTube channel became the subject of this research, and her formal object is the discussion of female sexuality in Sisilism videos. This research has the purpose to understand how the discourse of sexuality became an arena of the struggle for the practice of power/knowledge. The videos discussing women's sexuality published from 2016- 2022 were selected as a collection of texts that were analyzed using the Critical Discourse Analysis method described by Norman Fairclough. Through text analysis, discursive practice, and social practice, this study explains that female sexuality is shaped and produced through the discourse of the autonomy of female sexuality. The discourse shows Sisil’s agency to reject the double standards of women's sexuality that exist in Indonesian society and she's embracing it by adopting postfeminist concepts of gender and sexuality as a signal of women's liberations. Keywords: female sexuality, Critical Discourse Analysis, resistance, autonomy, postfeminism
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Leiliyanti, Eva, Dhaurana Atikah Dewi, Larasati Nur Putri, Fariza Fariza, Zufrufin Saputra, Andera Wiyakintra, and Muhammad Ulul Albab. "Patriarchal Language Evaluation of Muslim Women’s Body, Sexuality, and Domestication Discourse on Indonesian Male Clerics Preaching." Changing Societies & Personalities 6, no. 3 (October 10, 2022): 634. http://dx.doi.org/10.15826/csp.2022.6.3.193.

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This nested case study (multiyear research critical discourse analysis—in this case, the first year) aims to provide support in the form of linguistic recommendations to the law reform, particularly on the issues of Muslim women's bodies, sexuality, and domestication based on the textual analysis of the patriarchal language used by different Islamic strands: Muhammadiyah's, Nahdlatul Ulama's and Salafi's clerics in their preaching in Indonesia. This is significant because such a study is relatively limited in Indonesian cases. However, it also shed light on how discrepant linguistic manners of these male clerics were deployed to voice their noblesse oblige about Muslim women's body, sexuality, and domestication as regulatory discourse. The data—six videos of the respective clerics' preaching—were taken from Youtube using purposeful stratified sampling. It is found that Muhammadiyah's cleric delineated this discourse based on the segregation of dubious religiously correct and incorrect propriety, whereas Nahdlatul Ulama's cleric, the apparent religious normality, and Salafi's cleric, the plausible religious propriety.
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Agha, Ambreen. "Religious Discourse in Tablighi Jama'at: A Challenge to Female Sexuality?" International Journal of Multicultural and Multireligious Understanding 2, no. 3 (June 8, 2015): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.18415/ijmmu.v2i3.5.

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This paper is an empirical research on women's participation in Islamic revivalist movement of Tablighi Jama'at. In the current discourse on religion and female sexuality, I intend to look within Islam, as a religion and as an assertion of identity in the form of Tablighi Jama'at and Tabligh's articulation of its weltanschauung on Muslim way of life, with excessive focus on female sexuality. Here I will discuss Tabligh's conceptualisation of gender and gender roles through my field experience and analysis of women participation in the movement. In recent years we see that there is an upsurge in religious movements across the world exerting their identities and attempting to claim their rights. Since women have always been central to the political and social imagination of the Muslim mind we see an increased level of women's participation in these movements with defined sexual morality and gender equality.It is through the role of women in the transnational Islamic revivalist movement of Tablighi Jama'at, which arose as a response to Christian missionary and Hindu revivalist movements in the early 1920's in pre-partition India, that I have explored their level of engagement and their practices in order to bring into light tabligh's understanding of the female agency in the Muslim social order. In the backdrop of the feminist project and keeping in view tabligh's Orientalist understanding of the female, I raise the following questions, 'Is Tablighi Jama'at another such assertion within Islam that prescribes laws to define and control the female sexual desire through their understanding of sexuality and gender relations? Is the female tabligh member an agent of 'reform' or is she 'socialized' to believe that that men are superior and that what is described as masculine precedes and has priority over the feminine?
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Bargach, Jamila. "An Ambiguous Discourse of Rights: the 2004 Family Law Reform in Morocco." Hawwa 3, no. 2 (2005): 245–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1569208054739056.

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AbstractThe daring reforms of the 2004 family law in Morocco were heralded as a watershed in the contemporary status of gender relations. Making the institution of the tutor optional, raising the age of marriage to be equal between men and women and granting rights of custody to the mother in cases of divorce or re-marriage were seen as valorizing to women. However, and despite this progressive thrust, there remain some murky areas pertaining to the question of birth outside wedlock. This article weaves its argument around the structural impossibility of establishing legal rights to unmarried mothers given that such a phenomenon symbolizes deep existential anxieties about changes occurring within hitherto controlled and taboo domains of sexuality and the right to sexuality. The crisis facing traditional forms of solidarity and the indeterminacy of the Mudawana's clauses invoke an embattled social space where women's "illegal" sexuality continues to be the vexing nexus.
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Esquilín, Mary Ann Gosser. "Ecofeminist discourse and fluid lyrical sexualities." Journal of Language and Sexuality 5, no. 2 (September 16, 2016): 155–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/jls.5.2.02esq.

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The traditional reading of Julia de Burgos’s (1914–1953) poem “Río Grande de Loíza” positions the river as a male lover. An ecofeminist reading yields a very different reading and raises other questions about the gendered and sexual message circulating within the poem. In my reading, the river becomes a fluid, lyrical mirror reflecting the poet’s quest for transnational and transsexual freedom unbound by female corporeality. Burgos invokes the river as a non-human Other interlocutor in order to deconstruct both the geographic and political boundaries imposed by US colonial hegemony and the sexual ones foisted by patriarchal-oriented Puerto Rican nationalists who viewed sexuality as heteronormative. By the 1930s, landscapes had been appropriated as symbols of the fatherland and a distinct Puerto Rican identity. Burgos’s language establishes instead a fluvial proto-feminist discourse of empowerment by imagining multiple sites of corporeal pleasure that transcend national barriers and offers alternative poetic fluid sexualities.
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Reed, Joseph D. "The Sexuality of Adonis." Classical Antiquity 14, no. 2 (October 1, 1995): 317–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/25011025.

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This paper seeks to ascertain the ways in which Adonis and his ritual lament were used by Classical men and women in their constructions of their own gender and the other. The evidence from Classical Athens turns out to originate mainly among men and thus outside the cult, from which men were excluded; the myths and descriptions of the rite that we possess say more about men's attitudes toward themselves and toward women than about the celebrants' motives. Nevertheless, women's attitudes toward Adonis may be inferred from the social circumstances in which the Attic cult arose. Care must be taken to distinguish the different interests represented in the extant evidence (e.g., male from female and Greek from non-Greek). Marcel Detienne's influential structuralist interpretation of the cult has rightly dissociated Attic Adonis from similar Near Eastern figures and contextualized him in Classical Athenian society. Detienne's interpretation, however, has limitations, since it treats Adonis only as a representative of the unmanly and unproductive, and tends to ignore the different uses to which men and women could put Adonis and his rite. For example, the proverb "more fruitless than the gardens of Adonis" originated in male discourse, and does not necessarily reflect women's views. In comedy Adonis and the Adonia become a foil for masculine values; not only does this tell us nothing of what the celebrants thought, but awareness of the many strategies of self-definition available to Athenian men compels us to entertain other constructions of Adonis in other discursive milieus. Finally, although little testimony remains from the woman's perspective, we may speculate that in democratic Athens, restrictions on traditional female mourning rituals and the polarization of the sexes would have made such a private cult as the Adonia attractive to women.
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Al-Bakr, Fahad. "The Women's Epistolary Novel in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Study the structure of the discourse in the most prominent." Journal of Human and Administrative Sciences, no. 28 (September 1, 2022): 85–106. http://dx.doi.org/10.56760/10.5676/wcpk4231.

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Hare, Kathleen (Kaye) A. "“Institutionalized States of Information Abstinence”." Art/Research International: A Transdisciplinary Journal 6, no. 2 (September 4, 2021): 415–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.18432/ari29540.

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In this study, I provide applied examples of using cut-up poetic inquiry as an arts-based research method for analyzing erasure poetry. The erasure poetry was composed by five poet-participants and me during a sensory ethnography that explored embodied experiences of a sexual educator training program. I first overview erasure poetics in the context of sexuality education. I explain how erasure poetry as method can interrupt authoritative proclamations of truth, while also providing a technique to grapple with complex, corporeal data – central topics in sex education research. I then theorize cut-up poetic inquiry as an additional form of erasure, asking and illustrating how the processes of cut-up can distill information to enable emergent analytic insights in the context of my research. Throughout, I meditate on how erasure poetry as an arts- based research method can contribute to discussions of language, discourse, and embodiment in sex education research.
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Stephan, Rita. "Arab Women Writing Their Sexuality." Hawwa 4, no. 2-3 (2006): 159–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/156920806779152219.

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AbstractEgyptian psychiatrist Nawal al-Saadawi and Syrian novelist Ghada al-Samman challenge the dichotomy of women's sexuality as both a deviant power of beauty and an object of social control. By reviewing some of the writings of al-Saadawi and al-Samman, I compare their analyses of sexual relations vis-à-vis social structures and religious regulations. I argue that by reclaiming their rights to sexuality, they not only contest the sexual hegemonic discourse but also the apparatus of social control. Both writers dispute general views of Arab female sexuality by successfully introducing taboo subjects into the public debate. I examine their popular writings that have publicly exposed the dogmatic subject of sexuality and its relational complexity to the public debate. The extent of al-Saadawi's influence is indicated by the vast audience for her literature and the heated reactions from conservatives and traditionalists alike. Similarly, al-Samman, who writes from an existentialist view, reaches Arab male and female readers and ranks highly among the most read Arab female authors. Al-Saadawi and al-Samman were, and remain, agents of change in a society that continues to undergo difficult transformations.
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Antonopoulos, Anna. "Writing the Mystic Body: Sexuality and Textuality in the écriture-féminine of Saint Catherine of Genoa." Hypatia 6, no. 3 (1991): 185–207. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1527-2001.1991.tb00263.x.

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This paper looks to evolve a discourse about the body in medieval women's mystical experience via an understanding of the life and work of Saint Catherine of Genoa as écriture-féminine. Drawing upon Catherine's resolution of binarism through the articulation of sexuality and textuality, I argue that the female mystic's experience of the body as site of struggle helps move beyond analysis of a binary experience to a politics of speaking the body directly.
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Poetic discourse on women's sexuality"

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Gould, Sandra Marie. "Gendered rhetoric: Women's voices in academic discourse." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1993. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/708.

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Murray, Kendal 1958, of Western Sydney Nepean University, and Faculty of Visual and Performing Arts. "The use of abstract and figurative images to evoke emotive qualities characteristic of women's sexuality." THESIS_FVPA_XXX_Murray_K.xml, 1995. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/646.

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This research paper examines the implications of a feminist appropriation of the fetish and the use of the theory of abjection, as a disruption of phallocentric binary labelling and its notion of idealised femininity. The paper is divided into two sections. The first section includes an analysis of Emily Apter's articles 'Fetishism and Visual Seduction in Mary Kelly's Interim' and an analysis of Janine Antoni's installation 'Gnaw' which form a contextualisation of the issues on which my own visual research is based. These issues revolve around the creation of multiple subject positions for women as both artist and spectator, the recuperation of the seductive image without creating the same power relations apparent in the male gaze and the deployment of an abstract visual femininity to scopically seduce the viewer. In section two, part one, Praveen Adams' article 'The art of analysis: Mary Kelly's Interim and the discourse of the analyst is examined. In this article Adams uses Lacan's theory of discourse to hypothesise that the space of production in Interim is an analogue to the space of production in pyschoanalysis. Part two consists of an examination of the application of the same structural analysis to Antoni's 'Gnaw' and my own 'Compulsive Beauty,' and explores the possibility of a new contextual analysis of feminist art
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Kennedy-Churnac, Yoshan A. "The Weight of Words: Discourse, Power and the 19th Century Prostitute." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2011. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/93.

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This thesis discusses discourses surrounding the urban prostitute in mid-nineteenth century Paris and London. During the nineteenth century, sexuality became a topic of increasing concern and an outpouring of literature on deviant sexuality and ways to regulate it appeared from moral commentators, social scientists, and physicians. Different historical moments saw the prevalence of different approaches taken, whether it was through the moral counsel of religious pamphlets, or through the methodological approach implemented by medical journals and social surveys. My study will trace the evolution of sexual discourses on prostitutes as well as how their authors influenced attempts to regulate these women. My primary argument is that sexual discourses of this period were organized around definitions of normality and deviancy, the understanding of what constitutes respectability, and the desire to control marginalized populations. The discursive literature on prostitution that appeared during this century thus provides an indication of how power manifests itself in unseen ways and how the power of words can shape definitions of sexuality and deviance.
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Burris, Jessica Margaret. "Finding Feminism in American Political Discourse : A Discourse Analysis of Post-Feminist Language." UNF Digital Commons, 2012. http://digitalcommons.unf.edu/etd/395.

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The term “feminist” is a widely used label that is often embraced by women who do not advocate feminism. The wide use of the feminist label in contrast to the declining presence of feminist activism indicates a problem with the development of a third wave of feminism in the United States. In this study, I evaluated trends in feminism in the United States through an analysis of public political discourse. A semantic discourse analysis of political discourse from 1870 to 2011 evaluated a shift in the use of inclusive and exclusive pronoun usage by female political speakers. Speeches compiled for this study were obtained from internet sources such as NPR, C-Span and CNN, and evaluated the oratory of Victoria Woodhull, Geraldine Ferraro, Hillary Clinton, Sarah Palin and Michelle Bachmann. The results of this study indicated that there was not a strong shift in the use of inclusive and exclusive pronouns overtime, but there was a large growth in both population and diversity of the targeted audience, and this growth was often not accommodated for in the discourse of contemporary female political candidates. The slow shift in inclusive discourse indicated a post-feminist line of thought that questioned the validity of an argument for a third wave of feminist activism in the United States. Political discourse cannot define a cause for post-feminism, but can indicate a downward trend in the influence of feminism as a contemporary cultural movement.
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Bills, George F. "Untangling Neoliberalism’s Gordian Knot: Cancer Prevention and Control Services for Rural Appalachian Populations." UKnowledge, 2013. http://uknowledge.uky.edu/sociology_etds/12.

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In eastern Kentucky, as in much of central Appalachia, current local storylines narrate the frictions and contradictions involved in the structural transition from a post-WWII Fordist industrial economy and a Keynesian welfare state to a Post-Fordist service economy and Neoliberal hollow state, starving for energy to sustain consumer indulgence (Jessop, 1993; Harvey, 2003; 2005). Neoliberalism is the ideological force redefining the “societal infrastructure of language” that legitimates this transition, in part by redefining the key terms of democracy and citizenship, as well as valorizing the market, the individual, and technocratic innovation (Chouliaraki & Fairclough, 1999; Harvey, 2005). This project develops a perspective that understands cancer prevention and control in Appalachiaas part of the structural transition that is realigning community social ties in relation to ideological forces deployed as “commonsense” storylines that “lubricate” frictions that complicates the transition.
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Asgari, Hossein. "A Passage through Sin: Life and Poetry of Forugh Farrokhzad." Thesis, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/2440/131956.

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Only sound remains is a novel informed by the life and poetry of Forugh Farrokhzad—the most controversial poet of modern Iran. Saeed, the narrator of the story, who has been living in Adelaide for five years, has not returned to Iran after publishing his novel The imaginary narrative of a real murder, for fear of political persecution. When his father, Ismael, decides to travel to Adelaide to visit him, Saeed finds it peculiar since his father has never left Iran except for the Mecca pilgrimage. During his short stay, Ismael tells the story of his obsessive and unrequited love for Forugh. Ismael’s love for Utopian ideas, his inability to make peace between his desires and spiritual aspirations, and his naive involvement in politics as the Shah and the Ayatollah are struggling for power, is used to depict the ethos of the society of Farrokhzad’s time. It is against this socio-political background that the story of her endeavour to be her own individual rejecting the accepted norms of her society, is narrated. Ismael’s duplicity and at times his nonchalant cruelty, is an index of how the patriarchal society tried to punish and discipline Forugh for her unconventional choices both as a poet and as a woman. Through this narrative, Saeed sees the country he has left behind and his relationship with his father in a new light. The exegetical component of this thesis examines the aspects of Forugh Farrokhzad’s poetry that agitated the core social and political tenets of Iranian society and provides a deeper understanding of the tense interaction between the poet and her surroundings. Farrokhzad’s poetry started an unprecedented poetic discourse on women’s sexuality in Iran. Through close reading of her poems, the exegesis suggests that ambivalence and fluctuations between self-doubt and self-confidence are central to her life and poetry; and she was pushed to the verge of nervous breakdown repeatedly, mainly because she approached love against the ethos of her time. Further, this exegesis argues that the confessional nature of Farrokhzad’s poetry—in a society where confession is neither part of its Islamic tradition nor culturally praised—played a central role in the extreme reactions her poetry evoked.
Thesis (Ph.D.) -- University of Adelaide, School of Humanities, 2021
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"Mad Minds: Theorizing the Intersection of Gender, Sexuality and Mental Illness in Contemporary Media Discourse." Doctoral diss., 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.49237.

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abstract: This project analyzes contemporary U.S. mental health discourse as an assemblage that constantly renegotiates the normative subject through the production and regulation of intersectional mentally ill subjects. It uses feminist disability and biopolitical theoretical frameworks to explore how media discourses of mental illness reveal the regulation of mentally ill subjects in relationship to intersections of gender, sexuality, and race. These discourses constitute a biopolitical technology that genders, racializes, and regulates mental illness. This regulation not only reveals the cultural boundaries around who is designated as “mentally ill” (and how they are designated as such), but it also demonstrates how mental illness is normalized when attached to certain bodies in specific contexts, yet perceived as a threat to the social body when attached to other bodies in other contexts. In order to explore this assemblage, this project is organized around four foundational questions: How is mental illness produced, surveilled, and differentially regulated as a social formation within medicine and policy? How does media reproduce and renegotiate these medical and political mental health discourses? How do these mental health discourses intersect with gender, race, and sexuality? How does our assemblage of cultural, medical, and political discourse produce, observe, and regulate intersectional mentally ill subjects in relationship to shifting ideals of normative subjecthood? This project answers these questions over the course of several case studies, each of which explores a set of thematically linked texts as a window into understanding how mental illness operates intersectionally and biopolitically in cultural discourses and social institutions. The first section establishes a broad theoretical framework for articulating how discourses of gender and sexuality are central to the production of mental illness in the United States today. The second section explores how this intersection of gender, sexuality, and mental illness is observed and regulated through social institutions like the workplace, the nation-state, and the carceral system. The final section explores emergent discourses of mental illness that move us away from centering individual mentally healthy subjects as idealized entities and toward understanding mental and emotional well-being as a collective social enterprise.
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Doctoral Dissertation Gender Studies 2018
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(6636131), April M. Urban. "Descent's Delicate Branches: Darwinian Visions of Race and Gender in American Women's Literature, 1859-1928." Thesis, 2019.

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This dissertation examines Charles Darwin’s major texts together with literary works by turn-of the-century American women writers—Nella Larsen, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and Kate Chopin—in order to trace how evolutionary theory shaped transatlantic cultural ideas of race, particularly black identity, and gender. I focus on the concept of “descent” as the overarching theme organizing categories of the human in evolutionary terms. My perspective and methods—examining race and gender from a black feminist perspective that draws on biopolitics theory, as well as using close reading, affect theory, and attention to narrative in my textual analysis—comprise my argument’s framework. By bringing these perspectives and methods together in my attention to the interplay between Darwinian discourse and American literature, I shed new light on the turn-of-the-century transatlantic exchange between science and culture. Throughout this dissertation, I argue that descent constitutes a central concept and point of tension in evolutionary theory’s inscription of life’s development. I also show how themes of human-animal kinship, the Western binary of rationality and materiality, and reproduction and maternity circulated within this discourse. I contribute to scholarly work relating evolutionist discourse to literature by focusing on American literature: in the context of turn-of-the-century American anxieties about racial and gender hierarchies, the evolutionist paradigm’s configurations of human difference were especially consequential. Moreover, Larsen, Gilman, and Chopin offer responses that reveal this hierarchy’s varied effects on racialized and gendered bodies. I thus demonstrate the significance of examining Darwinian discourse alongside American literature by women writers, an association in need of deeper scholarly attention, especially from a feminist, theoretical perspective.

This dissertation begins with my application of literary analysis and close reading to Darwin’s major texts in order to uncover how they formed a suggestive foundation for late nineteenth- to early twentieth-century ideologies of race and gender. I use this analysis as the background for my investigation of Larsen’s, Gilman’s, and Chopin’s literary texts. In Chapter 1, I conduct a close reading of Darwin’s articulation of natural selection in The Origin of Speciesand focus on how Darwin’s syntactical and narrative structure imply evolution as an agential force aimed at linear progress. In Chapter 2, I analyze Darwin’s articulation of the development of race and gender differences in The Descent of Man, as well as Thomas Henry Huxley’s Evidence as to Man’s Place in Nature, and argue that Darwin’s and Huxley’s accounts suggest how anxiety over animal-human kinship was alleviated through structuring nonwhite races and women as less developed and hence inferior. In Chapter 3, I argue that Larsen’s novel Quicksand interrogates and complicates aesthetic primitivism and biopolitical racism and sexism, both rooted in evolutionist discourses. Finally, in Chapter 4, I focus on Gilman’s utopian novel Herlandand select short stories by Chopin. While Gilman unambiguously advocates for a desexualized white matriarchy, Chopin’s stories waver between support for, and critique of, racial hierarchy. Reading these authors together against the backdrop of white masculine evolutionist theory reveals how this theory roots women as materially bound reproducers of racial hierarchy.

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Mercier, Élisabeth. "Ni hypersexualisées ni voilées ! Tensions et enjeux croisés dans les discours sur l’hypersexualisation et le port du voile «islamique» au Québec." Thèse, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/9859.

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Cette thèse identifie une cooccurrence des discours à propos de l’hypersexualisation des jeunes filles et ceux concernant le port du voile islamique qui sont, depuis quelques années, au cœur des préoccupations sociales au Québec comme ailleurs en Occident. Plus spécifiquement, elle propose une « économie générale des discours » (Foucault, 1976) contemporains sur l’hypersexualisation et le port du voile, dans une perspective conjoncturelle, par et à travers trois contextes d'analyse particuliers : féministe, médiatique et public. Elle démontre comment l’hypersexualisation et le port du voile sont problématisés (Foucault, 2001/1984), c'est-à-dire qu’ils sont posés comme nouveaux problèmes sociaux engendrant et cristallisant bon nombre de craintes et d’anxiétés contemporaines. Ainsi, la thèse est composée de trois chapitres centraux qui reprennent chacun des contextes de problématisation identifiés. Le chapitre intitulé « Féminisme(s) et égalité des sexes », avance que l’égalité des sexes est invoquée comme valeur moderne, féministe et québécoise par excellence et qu’elle participe, à ce titre, de la problématisation du port du voile et de l’hypersexualisation. Le chapitre suivant, « Médias, diversité et (hyper) visibilité », concentre l’analyse sur les médias et la culture populaire, à la fois sujets énonciateurs, régimes et objets de discours, participant à construire et à délimiter l’adolescence et la religion/culture musulmane comme des mondes à part, mystérieux, tout en les exposant au public. Enfin, à partir d’une analyse des discours publics à propos de l’hypersexualisation et du port du voile, le chapitre intitulé « Laïcité, sexualité et neutralité » met en lumière les façons par lesquelles ces problèmes sont constitutifs de chartes, de codes et d’autres formes de règlementations qui viennent non seulement normaliser mais également discipliner la conduite de chacun, au nom du bien commun et de la neutralité de l’État. Un « Retour sur la conjoncture » vient conclure la thèse en mettant en lumière certains éléments conjoncturels qui traversent ses principaux chapitres, dont les questions du consensus et de l’extrême.
This dissertation identifies a co-occurrence between the discourses about girl’s ‘hypersexualization’ and those regarding the ‘Islamic’ practice of veiling, which have been generating similar concerns, discourses and anxieties in Quebec as well as in most Western societies for the past years. More specifically, I propose a ‘general economy of discourses’ (Foucault, 1976) about hypersexualization and headscarf-wearing, from a conjunctural perspective, and by means of three contexts of analysis: feminist, media, and public. I demonstrate how hypersexualization and headscarf-wearing are problematized (Foucault, 2001/1984), that is to say, how they are produced as concomitant social problems. The dissertation consists of three main chapters that each takes on one of the contexts of problematization. The chapter entitled ‘Feminism(s) and Gender Equality’, argues that gender equality is invoked as the modern value par excellence within the feminist movement as in Quebec society. As such, gender equality is constitutive of the problems of hypersexualization and headscarf-wearing. The next chapter, ‘Media Diversity and (Hyper) Visibility’, focuses on the media and popular culture as both subjects and objects of discourse, which produce and define adolescence and Muslim religion/culture as worlds apart, while exposing them to the public. Finally, the chapter entitled ‘Secularism, Sexuality, and Neutrality’ analyzes the public discourses about hypersexualization and headscarf-wearing and highlights the ways in which these problems are constitutive of charters, codes of conduct and other forms of regulations, in the name of the common good and state’s neutrality. In conclusion, I provide a ‘look back’ on the conjuncture, stressing some issues that crosses the main chapters of the dissertation, such as the questions of consensus and extreme.
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Books on the topic "Poetic discourse on women's sexuality"

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Hawthorne, Melanie C. Women, Citizenship, and Sexuality. Liverpool University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/liverpool/9781789628128.001.0001.

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Until well into the twentieth century, the claims to citizenship of women in the US and in Europe have come through men (father, husband); women had no citizenship of their own. The case studies of three expatriate women (Renée Vivien, Romaine Brooks, and Natalie Barney) illustrate some of the consequences for women who lived independent lives. To begin with, the books traces the way that ideas about national belonging shaped gay male identity in the nineteenth century, before showing that such a discourse was not available to women and lesbians, including the three women who form the core of the book. In addition to questions of sexually non-conforming identity, women's mediated claim to citizenship limited their autonomy in practical ways (for example, they could be unilaterally expatriated). Consequently, the situation of the denizen may have been preferable to that of the citizen for women who lived between the lines. Drawing on the discourse of jurisprudence, the history of the passport, and original archival research on all three women, the books tells the story of women's evolving claims to citizenship in their own right.
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Schultz, Jaime. Introduction. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252038167.003.0001.

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This introductory chapter considers how something as seemingly mundane as a ponytail is actually shot through with substantial and varied cultural significance. Unquestionably, the hairstyle provides a practical solution for dealing with longer hair, but what it comes to mean, how it is taken up in mediated discourse, the ways it becomes synonymous with female athletes, and its relationships to sexuality, age, race, nationality, and culture engender a normative, athletic femininity in the context of U.S. women's sports. At the same time, there are dynamics of power, pleasure, agency, and resistance involved with the everyday act of styling one's hair. It is difficult to imagine women's sport without the ponytail, but the chapter argues that it is precisely because they seem so commonsense and commonplace that they are powerfully connected to gendered ideologies.
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Lucey, Colleen. Love for Sale. Cornell University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501758867.001.0001.

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This book is the first study to examine the ubiquity of commercial sex in Russian literary and artistic production from the nineteenth century through the fin de siècle. The book offers a compelling account of how the figure of the sex worker captivated the public's imagination through depictions in fiction and fine art, bringing to light how imperial Russians grappled with the issue of sexual commerce. Studying a wide range of media — from little-known engravings that circulated in newspapers to works of canonical fiction — the book shows how writers and artists used the topic of prostitution both to comment on women's shifting social roles at the end of tsarist rule and to express anxieties about the incursion of capitalist transactions in relations of the heart. Each chapter focuses on a type of commercial sex, looking at how the street walker, brothel worker, demimondaine, kept woman, impoverished bride, and madam traded in sex as a means to acquire capital. The book argues that prostitution became a focal point for imperial Russians because it signaled both the promises of modernity and the anxieties associated with Westernization. The book integrates historical analysis, literary criticism, and feminist theory and conveys how nineteenth-century beliefs about the “fallen woman” drew from medical, judicial, and religious discourse on female sexuality. The book invites readers to draw a connection between rhetoric of the nineteenth century and today's debate on sex workers' rights, highlighting recent controversies concerning Russian sex workers to show how imperial discourse is recycled in the twenty-first century.
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Book chapters on the topic "Poetic discourse on women's sexuality"

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Nakamura, Momoko. "Historical Discourse Approach to Japanese Women's Language." In The Handbook of Language, Gender, and Sexuality, 378–95. Hoboken, US: John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781118584248.ch19.

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Nixon, Angelique V. "On Being a Black Sexual Intellectual." In Black Sexual Economies, 237–49. University of Illinois Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.5622/illinois/9780252042645.003.0015.

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This chapter provides a critical reading of Cheryl Clarke's second volume of poetry, Living as a Lesbian. Situating this text within the larger context of black women's poetry, Green argues that its erotic aesthetic works to critique the historic erasure of the black lesbian body in the discourse of African American life as it simultaneously pushes toward and away from theories of sexuality that limit and thus reduce black women’s linguistic economies to metaphors of sexual desire.
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"Conclusion: the women’s movement and discourse on sexuality." In Feminism and the Women's Movement in Malaysia, 165–82. Routledge, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780203099315-16.

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Jones, Kevin M. "Cultural Hegemony." In The Dangers of Poetry, 159–84. Stanford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.11126/stanford/9781503613393.003.0007.

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This chapter explores the collapse of national front politics and the violent cultural conflict that followed the revolution of July 14, 1958. It shows how relatively minor ideological disputes over the meaning of “Arab unity” evolved into a vicious cultural confrontation between communists and nationalists. The chapter documents the role of nationalist poets in constructing an anticommunist cultural discourse that emphasized the sexual immorality of their rivals. Their own vision of “muscular nationalism” portrayed the nationalist Baʿth Party as custodians of national honor and progressive advocates of women’s liberation. Communist poets struggled to combat these allegations by defending the progressive aspects of their agenda, but they remained hesitant to address questions of gender and sexuality directly. The poetry wars of this period critically shaped the cultural politics of national liberation and presaged the sectarian violence of the coming decades.
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"Querying the forbidden discourse: sexuality, power and dominance in Malaysia." In Feminism and the Women's Movement in Malaysia, 145–64. Routledge, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780203099315-15.

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Ziogas, Ioannis. "Sexperts and Legal Experts." In Law and Love in Ovid, 245–300. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198845140.003.0006.

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This chapter situates the expertise of the praeceptor amoris (‘teacher of love’) in the context of the rise of the Roman jurists in the early Principate. The autonomy of jurisprudence in the schools of law goes hand in hand with the independence of sexuality in Ovid’s school of love. The bulk of the chapter explores the juridico-discursive nature of Ovid’s Ars amatoria and includes a discussion of Ovid’s account of Tiresias (Metamorphoses 3) that highlights the confluence of amatory and juridical expertise. It explores the deep interconnections between the didactic discourses of jurists and love poets. Since both Ovid’s innovative laws of love and Augustus’ legal reforms make female sexuality the centre of attention, the chapter focuses on the ways in which both Ovid and Augustus aim to fashion women in the image of their desires.
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Tsao, Evangeline. "Voicing Women's Desire With a Camera." In Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Women, Voice, and Agency, 254–81. IGI Global, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-4829-5.ch010.

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Conventional theorization of Western visual culture characterized the female form as passive objects that cater to men's viewing pleasure. This raises the questions of how women might take control over their self-representation to communicate their subjective sexuality, and to reclaim visual narratives of their own desire. This chapter discusses the activist potential of auto-photography, a practice that involves self-imaging and self-analysis, for women to actively voice their understanding and experience of desire. Drawing upon practices in art and in an empirical project of ‘photographing desire', it argues that the method enables consciousness-raising, and the materials generated can counter dominant discourse and unveil the diverse, underrepresented women's desire, thus having the potential of empowering women.
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Mann, Jenny C. "Softening." In The Trials of Orpheus, 128–56. Princeton University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.23943/princeton/9780691219226.003.0005.

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This chapter begins by investigating the complicated virtue of softness and softening in the classical and early modern language arts. Having established the “drawing” force of verbal eloquence, which places makers and audiences in thrall to desire and to language, the chapter specifies the dissolute texture of that thralldom. It follows how the complex gendering of the Orphic figure shapes conceptions of verbal persuasion and literary transmission in early modern England. Through Ovid's revaluing of softening as poetic force, this chapter also reveals how normative sex/gender configurations fail to account for the gender or the desires of the Orphic poet. Ultimately, it examines the elaboration of a “soft” poetics in Marlowe's English translation of Ovid's Amores (ca. 1599), which presents softness as the very ground of poetic invention. The chapter then suggests that the early modern discourse of poetic softness is a queer discourse of sexuality without or, perhaps, in excess of gender.
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Rich, Kate. "The Vagina Apocalypse." In Young Adult Sexuality in the Digital Age, 94–111. IGI Global, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-3187-7.ch006.

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Intrauterine devices (IUDs) have been the subject of contentious debate on all sides of the political spectrum. In response, many have created various IUD-related texts that are not only controversial, but allude to apocalyptic themes. Apocalyptic discourse has previously been studied in relation to religion, mass media, the environment, and masculinity. The feminist or even feminine style apocalypse, however, has yet to be explored. Widespread feminist movements use the apocalyptic genre to communicate dystopian urgency about women's reproductive rights. Simultaneously, alternative medicine movements are a source of persuasive texts that both co-opt feminist themes while making use of apocalyptic genre to deter women from certain birth control methods. This chapter analyzes feminist texts in the alternative medicine movement through the Instagram accounts positioned against IUDs to evidence how the feminist apocalyptic genre functions. Greater implications for apocalyptic genre, medical discourse, and feminist symbolism will be addressed.
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Ziogas, Ioannis. "Introduction." In Law and Love in Ovid, 1–24. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198845140.003.0001.

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This chapter sets up the methodological and theoretical parameters. Agamben’s homo sacer and ‘State of Exception’ are keys for interpreting Latin love elegy’s links to the juridical order. This theoretical background is closely linked to the age of Augustus. The chapter offers definitions of the key concepts of amor, a word related both to extrajuridical desire and to the juridical discourse of sexuality (cf. Foucault), and lex, which can mean both ‘law’ and ‘rule’. The technical and non-technical uses of lex bleed into one another in ways that Ovid will exploit in his poetry to document the interdependence of legal authority and poetic justice. The chapter gives an overview of current scholarship on law in Ovid and further explains its contribution to the interdisciplinary field of law and literature.
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