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Missenden, Kirstie. "Premature sexual maturation : subjectivity and discourse." Thesis, University of East London, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.532412.
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Kahn, Lauren. "Sexual subjects : a feminist post-structuralist analysis of female adolescent sexual subjectivity and agency." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/10640.
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Includes bibliographical references (leaves 159-169).Research and intervention into female adolescent sexual health in the context of HIV/AIDS have been dominated by individualistic, cognitive perspectives, which present sexuality as a site of rational, individual choice and agency. A paradigm shift has occurred in recent years, advanced with the realisation that decision-making around sexual health is not driven by rational reasoning alone but, rather, is complexly intertwined with social/discursive constructions of gender and sexuality which, in turn, are enmeshed with processes of signification and relations of power. Drawing upon feminist, post-structuralist and discourse analytic theoretical, methodological and analytical frames, the study focuses on the discourses available to young women for making meaning out of their experiences with their bodies, their relationships and sexual choices, and explores how gendered constructions of (female adolescent) sexuality alternatively enable or undermine adolescent girls' sexual health.
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Singh, Michelle Marie. "Feminist subjects: issues of sexual politics and the problem of subjectivity." Thesis, Griffith University, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/366079.
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This dissertation sets out to re-describe (hetero)sexuality as a theoretical and political problem for feminism. I pursue this task two ways: by historicising both heterosexuality and feminist sexual politics, and by critically assessing the effects of the conceptions of subjectivity and power that have shaped primary feminist approaches to sexuality. I begin this project by examining a specific feminist attitude of antagonism towards post-structuralist theories, and drawing out its underlying ideal of feminism as a closed and coherent theoretical and political system. I argue that this conception of ‘proper’ feminist theory and politics has significant bearing on how sexuality – especially heterosexuality – can be conceived and dealt with. I also take up alternative feminist responses to post-structuralist theories: engagements which reflect very different notions of feminism generally, of subjectivity and power, and consequently, of (hetero)sexual politics. In the last two chapters, I examine some specific problems of sexuality, including anti-rape politics, and debates over the sexualisation of culture, in order to test the utility of the post-structuralist-influenced approach I have developed. Throughout the dissertation, I avoid a sole focus on corrective, theoretical critique, aiming to also acknowledge the significance of emotional affect, and historical location.Thesis (PhD Doctorate)
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
School of Humanities
Arts, Education and Law
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Coppel, Eva Parrondo. "Mapping textual surfaces : psychoanalytic theory, subjectivity, and 1940s Hollywood cinema." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.341714.
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Horne, Sharon, and n/a. "Female Sexual Health: The Definition and Development of Sexual Subjectivity, and Linkages with Sexual Agency, Sexual Experience and Well-Being in Late Adolescents and Emerging Adults." Griffith University. School of Psychology, 2005. http://www4.gu.edu.au:8080/adt-root/public/adt-QGU20060726.165349.
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Sexuality is an integral part of health and well-being. Despite a 30-year history of adolescent sexuality research, there has been little that has focused on more than risky sexual behaviour. For example, there has been little research on conceptions of sexuality and pathways to sexual health. In part, this is because sexual health has been often defined as the lack of risky behaviour and health problems. In the studies reported here, components of female sexual health were identified and tested, including behaviours and cognitions, among groups of girls in their late teens and early 20s. After a review of the literature, four sets of factors appeared central to identifying female sexual health. These factors included sexual subjectivity, sexual agency, psychosocial well-being and sexual exploration. The first factor, sexual subjectivity, had previously been described as important to female sexual well-being, but had been developed within feminist theories and studied with qualitative methodologies. After a thorough review of the literature, no psychometrically sound measure of sexual subjectivity was found. Therefore, an instrument to assess sexual subjectivity was constructed and validated through a series of studies. Partially as expected, five factors were found - sexual body-esteem, entitlement to sexual pleasure from oneself, entitlement to sexual pleasure from a partner, sexual self-efficacy in achieving sexual pleasure, and sexual self-reflection. In additional cross-sectional and longitudinal (6-month, 2 waves) studies, associations between sexual subjectivity, sexual agency, psychosocial well-being, and sexual experience were examined. The results showed that there were concurrent associations between sexual subjectivity and measures of sexual agency and some measures of psychosocial wellbeing. Results also showed that females with more sexual experience (i.e., experience with sexual intercourse, self-masturbation, noncoital orgasmic responsiveness, and same-sex sexual experience) were relatively higher in sexual subjectivity and sexual agency. However, well-being was similar in sexual experience groups when they were compared. In longitudinal analyses, changes in sexual subjectivity, sexual agency and psychosocial well-being were examined for the whole sample and among subgroups defined by levels of sexual experience. Comparisons were also made between those girls who commenced sexual intercourse during the course of the study, those who remained virgins, and those who were nonvirgins at the first assessment. Main effects generally validated cross-sectional findings. Girls who commenced first sexual intercourse relatively earlier increased in self-esteem over time, compared to their virgin counterparts. Girls who reported a history of self-masturbation and noncoital orgasmic responsiveness, and girls who reported no history with either behaviour, increased in sexual body-esteem and self-esteem over time, but the former group of girls were relatively higher in sexual body-esteem and self-esteem than the latter group of girls. Girls who reported a history of one, but not the other of self-masturbation and noncoital orgasm did not change over time. Results also indicated that girls' transition to first sexual intercourse had little association with sexual subjectivity, but some findings were suggestive of a need for further research. Future research, and study strengths and limitations are discussed. There is a need to examine sexual subjectivity as both an antecedent and an outcome using longer time lags with several waves of assessment so that the linkages between sexual subjectivity and other factors can be determined. The implications of sexual subjectivity and sexual exploration for sexuality education are also discussed.
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Horne, Sharon. "Female Sexual Health: The Definition and Development of Sexual Subjectivity, and Linkages with Sexual Agency, Sexual Experience and Well-Being in Late Adolescents and Emerging Adults." Thesis, Griffith University, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/365395.
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Sexuality is an integral part of health and well-being. Despite a 30-year history of adolescent sexuality research, there has been little that has focused on more than risky sexual behaviour. For example, there has been little research on conceptions of sexuality and pathways to sexual health. In part, this is because sexual health has been often defined as the lack of risky behaviour and health problems. In the studies reported here, components of female sexual health were identified and tested, including behaviours and cognitions, among groups of girls in their late teens and early 20s. After a review of the literature, four sets of factors appeared central to identifying female sexual health. These factors included sexual subjectivity, sexual agency, psychosocial well-being and sexual exploration. The first factor, sexual subjectivity, had previously been described as important to female sexual well-being, but had been developed within feminist theories and studied with qualitative methodologies. After a thorough review of the literature, no psychometrically sound measure of sexual subjectivity was found. Therefore, an instrument to assess sexual subjectivity was constructed and validated through a series of studies. Partially as expected, five factors were found - sexual body-esteem, entitlement to sexual pleasure from oneself, entitlement to sexual pleasure from a partner, sexual self-efficacy in achieving sexual pleasure, and sexual self-reflection. In additional cross-sectional and longitudinal (6-month, 2 waves) studies, associations between sexual subjectivity, sexual agency, psychosocial well-being, and sexual experience were examined. The results showed that there were concurrent associations between sexual subjectivity and measures of sexual agency and some measures of psychosocial wellbeing. Results also showed that females with more sexual experience (i.e., experience with sexual intercourse, self-masturbation, noncoital orgasmic responsiveness, and same-sex sexual experience) were relatively higher in sexual subjectivity and sexual agency. However, well-being was similar in sexual experience groups when they were compared. In longitudinal analyses, changes in sexual subjectivity, sexual agency and psychosocial well-being were examined for the whole sample and among subgroups defined by levels of sexual experience. Comparisons were also made between those girls who commenced sexual intercourse during the course of the study, those who remained virgins, and those who were nonvirgins at the first assessment. Main effects generally validated cross-sectional findings. Girls who commenced first sexual intercourse relatively earlier increased in self-esteem over time, compared to their virgin counterparts. Girls who reported a history of self-masturbation and noncoital orgasmic responsiveness, and girls who reported no history with either behaviour, increased in sexual body-esteem and self-esteem over time, but the former group of girls were relatively higher in sexual body-esteem and self-esteem than the latter group of girls. Girls who reported a history of one, but not the other of self-masturbation and noncoital orgasm did not change over time. Results also indicated that girls' transition to first sexual intercourse had little association with sexual subjectivity, but some findings were suggestive of a need for further research. Future research, and study strengths and limitations are discussed. There is a need to examine sexual subjectivity as both an antecedent and an outcome using longer time lags with several waves of assessment so that the linkages between sexual subjectivity and other factors can be determined. The implications of sexual subjectivity and sexual exploration for sexuality education are also discussed.Thesis (PhD Doctorate)
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
School of Psychology
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Wiebe, Brandy Michelle. "Competent sexual agency and feminine subjectivity : how young women negotiate discourses of sexuality." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/3991.
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Building upon feminist and sexual health research, this dissertation shows how the positioning of women in various discourses as somehow ‘lacking’ actually constrains what researchers are able to hear in their sexual stories. Using interviews with 26 heterosexually active young women, I seek to upset traditional approaches to understanding young women’s sexual stories and theorizing heterosexuality. To analyze the interviews, I first employ a Foucauldian-inspired discourse analysis that focuses on the power that circulates through discourses and our positioning within them. Our positioning in various discourses both enables and limits various courses of action, understandings and experiences. This power of discourse is illustrated by an emergent hybrid discourse that is apparent in young women’s sexual narratives. I discuss what I call the ‘competent feminine sexuality’ discourse and show how this discourse smoothes over contradictions between liberal and gendered discourses. Secondly, I show how psychoanalytic insights allow us to explore the processes of subjectification by which young women constitute themselves as (hetero)sexual women. Specifically, this dissertation explores processes of abjection, disavowal and ambivalence in participants’ narratives. In conclusion, the dissertation outlines the practical implications for sexual health education in Canada.
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Brownlie, Julie. "Between discourse and practice : creating the therapeutic subjectivity of the 'young sexual abuser'." Thesis, University of Stirling, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/437.
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This thesis is an attempt to theorise the therapeutic subjectivity of the 'young sexual abuser'. It falls into two parts. In the first, I make the case for an 'analytic bridging' between Foucauldian and other more broadly sociological perspectives in theorising sexual and therapeutic subjectivities. Specifically, I extend the Foucauldian idea of governmental practices into the therapeutic hour - that is, into the space and tie of therapeutic interaction. At the same tie, I also draw on more sociological readings about the self in interaction, sexuality and gendered embodient - themes which are revisited throughout the thesis when looking at chidhood, therapeutic practices and sexual risk. The second part of the thesis presents an empirical analysis of popular, practice and research accounts of 'problematic' young people and young sexual abusers; interview data with both 'young sexual abusers' and practitioners; and video-recordigs of a therapeutic programme for sexually abusive boys. Through ths analysis, I argue that the therapeutic subjectivity of the young sexual abuser is actually made up of three emergent subjectivities: the risky self, the victi-victiser and the controlled self. The thesis as a whole contributes to debates withn the sociology of chidhood, includig the relationship between gender, generation and sexual risk; to debates about the relationship between social theory and analysis of practice; and to debates about subjectification practices in late modernity, particularly with the gendered therapeutic project of sexual control.
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Bryant, Joanne. "Sex, subjectivity and agency a life history study of women's sexual relations and practices with men /." University of Sydney. Behavioural and Community Health Sciences, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/575.
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This study explores women’s experiences of sex with men. It is based on qualitative data collected from eighteen life history interviews. Such an approach provides means for examining women’s sexual experiences over time. The study finds that women give meaning to their sexual experiences through two main discursive representations: the passive, “proper” and sexually obliging girlfriend or wife, and the active and “sexually equal” woman. However, these representations do not capture the entirety of women’s sexual experiences. The life history analysis demonstrates that women are not simply inscribed by discourse. Rather, they are embodied beings actively engaged in pursuing sexual identities. Central to the process is a relationship between the practice of sex and self-reflexivity over time. Finally, the study demonstrates how the process of gaining sexual subjectivity is shaped by the material conditions of women’s lives. For instance, the praxeological circumstances of women’s class or race are powerful in recasting discourses of feminine sexuality, the meanings women ascribe to them, their access to broader sexual experiences, and the kinds of relationships they have with their male partners.
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Setzer, Katharine Adrienne. "Playing on-line : sexual subjectivity, gender play and the construction of the dyke SM fantasy." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp01/MQ54267.pdf.
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Barros, Marina Sodré Mendes. "Alteridade e diferença sexual: considerações sobre o debate psicanalítico contemporâneo." Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, 2009. http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=3621.
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Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível SuperiorA partir da interface entre psicanálise e cultura, este trabalho tem como objetivo analisar o debate contemporâneo acerca das noções psicanalíticas de alteridade e diferença sexual, instaurado pelos deslocamentos ocorridos no campo da sexualidade e pelos desafios que estes impõem à psicanálise. Para isso, propõe-se, em um primeiro momento, examinar a teoria freudiana sobre a diferença sexual, o que é realizado principalmente a partir das formulações acerca da sexualidade feminina. Como a construção do complexo de Édipo apresenta-se como uma tentativa de dar conta da constituição da identidade sexual e da diferença no processo de subjetivação, traça-se o trajeto do autor desde as primeiras menções ao Édipo até o encontro com o impasse do feminino, passando pela teoria das identificações como mecanismo privilegiado de assunção sexual. Em seguida, investiga-se o pensamento de Lacan em relação ao tema da diferença sexual, desde o seu retorno ao complexo de Édipo e a sua estruturação em termos de linguagem até as propostas apresentadas em seu último ensino, em que sublinha o aspecto real da sexuação assim como se valoriza a diferença sexual em termos de gozo. Finalmente, tendo como pano de fundo a nova cartografia das sexualidades, e como fio condutor, o diálogo travado entre Judith Butler e Slavoj iek, considera-se em que medida a psicanálise baseia a constituição da alteridade no modelo binário e hierárquico da divisão sexual, contribuindo para a manutenção normativa do sistema sexo-gênero ou em que medida a teoria psicanalítica proporciona um deslocamento da alteridade do modelo de diferença sexual, contribuindo para a sua compreensão enquanto indeterminação e contingência.
This work aims to analyze the current debate about the psychoanalitics concepts of difference and sexual difference introduced by displacements occurring in the field of sexuality and the challenges they impose on psychoanalysis from the interface between psychoanalysis and culture. In order to achieve that it proposes as a beginning to the task to examine the Freudian theory on sexual difference, which the main approach is from the formulations about of female sexuality. Then, it investigates the thinking of Lacan in relation to the issue of sexual difference, since its return to Oedipus complex until the proposals presented in his last work. Finally, taking as background the new cartography of sexualities, and like a thread, the dialog braked between Judith Butler and Slavoj iek, it considers to which extent the psychoanalysis is the base of constitution of the difference in the binary and hierarchical division sexual model, contributing to the normative maintenance of sex-gender system or in which extent psychoanalytic theory provides a displacement of the otherness of the model of sexual difference, contributing to their understanding as indeterminacy and contingency.
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Quach, Thi Thu Trang Sucheela Tanchainan. "Modern women, sexual desire and pleasure in Urban Vietnam /." Abstract, 2006. http://mulinet3.li.mahidol.ac.th/thesis/2549/cd388/4737928.pdf.
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Kholifah, Dwi Rubiyanti Pimpawun Boonmongkon. "Contesting discourses on sexuality and sexual subjectivity among single young women in pesantren (Muslim Boarding School), West Java, Indonesia /." Abstract Full Text (Mahidol member only), 2005. http://10.24.101.3/e-thesis/2548/cd377/4637972.pdf.
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Davies, Edward Burlton. "Reconstruction of gender law via a critical discourse analysis of trans and 3rd wave feminist narratives of sexual subjectivity." Thesis, Manchester Metropolitan University, 2013. http://e-space.mmu.ac.uk/314067/.
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The factions and discourses of feminism and transgender are often perceived as reciprocally exclusive. Those taken to belong to subjectivities associated with each faction have frequently held this perception. This exclusion may operate because each faction is only supposed to be associated with certain sexual subjectivities. The possible alienation between transgender and feminism is the social problem that the researcher addressed, in order to consider what positive outcomes on the law, as it pertains to gender, may emerge from cooperation between the two factions. To assess this emancipatory potential, the researcher compared primary data in the form of online narratives ventured by a group of trans people with secondary data in the form of published texts identified as narratives of 3rd wave feminism. 3rd wave feminism, transgender theory and post-1970s trans narratives showed potential to align with the inclusive philosophy evident in ethics of care while not foregoing focussed rights pertaining to certain ethnic, sexual and social subjectivities. The resulting postconventional ethics promised to facilitate a legal process that could benefit oppressed genders and that could recognise gender as genre and genealogy rather than as fixed essence. Images of fixed gender essence should give way to the transformation of trans and gender variant people from the ‘Others’ of heteronormativity to empowered others whose difference can be valued or, for those who wish to be accepted as men and women, whose similarity can be respected. The research for this thesis found that value and respect for gender, based upon knowledge and not stereotype, can be facilitated by both by woman’s inclusion-ist politics and by the care of maternal relations in order to reveal trans subjectivity and gender variance as legitimately whole subjectivities. This knowledge has revealed how oppressive elements of discourse such as silence/secrecy, infantilisation, interpellation, gatekeeping, separatism and heteronormativity have affected trans and gender variant people’s ability to manifest a social voice.
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Goulart, Lucas Aguiar. "Proudmoore pride : potencialidades da cultura de jogo digital e identidade política de gênero/sexualidade." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/66649.
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Este trabalho tem como objetivo refletir acerca das potências que a cultura de jogo digital oferece à construção dos modos de ser gendrados e sexualizados. A partir de um evento chamado Proudmoore Pride – uma parada LGBT dentro do jogo online World of Warcraft – procuro compreender de que maneira se constroem possibilidades de enunciar modos de vida não-misóginos e não-heteronormativos nessa cultura, além das formas de resistência à heteronormatividade. Entendo os jogos digitais como uma cultura e um contexto, não simplesmente um conteúdo explícito. Já a identidade de gênero/sexualidade é concebida como sempre política e contingente, inserida e constituída por e em relações de poder. Em relação aos seus materiais, essa pesquisa é divida em três dimensões: uma reflexão acerca das condições de possibilidade do que chamei de tecnopolítica de gênero/sexualidade, ou seja, o conjunto de movimentos organizados que se puseram a pensar a necessidade de uma política questionadora de identidades dentro das tecnologias de informação e comunicação e do ciberespaço, focalizando principalmente nos jogos digitais; a análise de fóruns e outras manifestações escritas acerca do evento; e minha experiência como pesquisador-jogador participando da parada em si. Metodologicamente, utilizei elementos da netnografia, e da análise de discurso e genealogia como pensadas por Michel Foucault. Com esse trabalho, constatei que os jogos digitais, apesar de manterem uma programação fixa e restritiva, podem ser usados de modos que não foram imaginados por seus criadores iniciais. Assim, elementos dos jogos são rearranjados pelos(as) seus(suas) jogadores(as) para designar e construir espaços que antes não existiam ali. Dessa maneira, entendo que durante a Proudmoore Pride se articula um espaço construído por elementos e narrativas originais do jogo original, mas que devidamente rearranjadas e deslocadas, resultam na visibilização e constituição de formas de vida não-heteronormativas dentro do World of Warcraft.This work aims to reflect about the power that the digital gaming culture offers to the construction of sexualized and gendered ways of being. From an event called Proudmoore Pride – an LGBT pride parade hosted at an online game called World of Warcraft – I seek to comprehend possibilities of enunciation of non-misogynist non-heteronormative ways of life in this culture, in addition to forms of resistance to heteronormativity. I understand digital games as a culture and context, not only as explicit content. The political gender/sexual identity are conceived as always political and contingent inserted and constituted by and in power relations. About its material, this research is divided in three dimensions: a reflection about the possibility conditions of what I called gender/sexuality technopolitics, in other words, the set of organized movements that question identity politics in information and communication technologies and the cyberspace, focusing mainly in digital games; the analysis of forums and other written manifestations about the event; and my own experience as a player-researcher participating of the in-game parade. Methodologically, I used elements of the netnography, of discourse analysis and genealogy as thought by Michel Foucault. With this work, I found that the digital games, despite of having fixed and restrictive programming, can be used in ways that wasn’t perceived by its original creators. Thus, gaming elements are rearranged by its players to designate and build spaces that didn’t existed there before. I understand that the Proudmoore Pride Parade is articulated at a space built with elements and narratives from the original game, in rearranged and dislocated ways, resulting in visualization and constitution of non-heteronormative ways of living in World of Warcraft.
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Dall'Alba, Lucena. "Sexualidade." Florianópolis, SC, 2008. http://repositorio.ufsc.br/xmlui/handle/123456789/90880.
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Esta Tese tem o propósito de pesquisar sobre sexualidade e produção de subjetividades, analisando narrativas autobiográficas de profissionais da educação, assim como dar visibilidade e problematizar os modos de aprender sobre si e sobre o outro no cotidiano das relações na família, escola, e em alguns outros espaços de sociabilidade, em relação à sexualidade. Argumento que todos os profissionais da educação promovem educação sexual nas práticas pedagógicas cotidianas e que a sexualidade é importante conhecimento para figurar no currículo de formação de educadores. Para desenvolver o estudo, empreendeu-se a análise de narrativas oriundas de entrevistas semi-estruturadas realizadas com dezoito profissionais da educação da região da Grande Florianópolis. O aporte teórico da pesquisa situa-se no campo dos Estudos Culturais, relacionando-o com os estudos de narrativa autobiográfica e dos estudos de corpo, gênero e sexualidade, tendo sido estruturado com base nas contribuições de autores como Foucault, Larrosa, Hall, Arfuch, Sant#Ana, Louro, Scott, Meyer, Conelly e Clandinin, Silveira, dentre outros. As análises desenvolvidas possibilitaram identificar as recorrências e deslocamentos nos modos de aprender sobre sexualidade no espaço escolar, familiar, e em outros espaços de convivência, e apontam que os profissionais da educação participantes da pesquisa foram subjetivados pela rede de discursos articulados pela família, escola e instituição religiosa. This thesis aims at researching on sexuality and subjectivity making, by analysing teachers# autobiographic narratives, and at making visible and problematising the way to learn about oneself and the other in the everyday relations in the family, school and some other social spaces. I have argued that every education providers encourage sexual education in their everyday teaching practices, and that sexuality is a significant piece of knowledge to be featured in the teacher education curriculum. To go further with this study, we have attempted to analyse narratives from partially-structured interviews with eighteen education providers at the large Florianópolis. The theoretical contribution of the research lies in the Cultural Studies field, relating it with studies of autobiographical narrative and the body, gender and sexuality studies, being based on contributions of authors like Foucault, Larrosa, Hall, Arfuch, Sant#Ana, Louro, Scott, Meyer, Conelly, Clandinin, Silveira, and others. The analyses enabled us to identify recurrences and displacements in the ways of learning about sexuality in school, family and other living spaces, and show that education providers participating in the research were subjectified in the discursive net worked by the family, school and religious institution.
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Tavares, Edgley Freire. "O masculino em revista: m?dia, discurso e modos de subjetiva??o afetivos-sexuais." Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, 2010. http://repositorio.ufrn.br:8080/jspui/handle/123456789/15312.
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Previous issue date: 2010-05-26This dissertation has the thematic of the sexual affection of the masculine subjectivity within texts of Universo Masculino and Men‟s Health magazines as object of analysis. The central objective was to describe and interpret the theme on the masculine subjectivity in discourses about the affection of sexuality materialized in discourse practices in those magazines. The main point of the research matters how the discourse structures of texts in those magazines make it possible to comprehend the meanings produced about the masculinity nowadays. On the perspective of the thematic trajectory what consists the main aspect that concerns the leading of corpus in the research under the French discourse analysis, we have searched, in reports of those magazines, an arch-genealogy of masculinity, from a specific sexual-affection disposable of our mediate culture. The analytic trajectory enables us to conclude that the thematic trajectory about the sexual affection of the masculine subjectivity produces a semantic way that confirms hegemony and hetero-normative ideals, rather than what proposes new performances on the masculine subjectivity experiences. In its real effects, such mediate discourse practice pursues to link certain sexual affection knowledge to the male individual‟s lifestyle today, from the thematic choices, enunciation modalities and discourse strategies which are specific to the masculine media
Esta disserta??o tem como objeto de an?lise a tematiza??o da subjetividade masculina afetiva sexual em textos das revistas Universo Masculino e Men‟s Health. Nosso objetivo central ? descrever e interpretar o tema da subjetividade masculina nos discursos de afetividade e sexualidade materializados nas pr?ticas discursivas destas revistas. A principal quest?o norteadora da pesquisa ? a problematiza??o do modo como a discursividade destas duas revistas possibilita compreender os efeitos de sentido produzidos sobre o masculino na atualidade. Na perspectiva do trajeto tem?tico, aspecto central no tratamento de corpus na pesquisa em an?lise do discurso francesa, percorremos, nas mat?rias das revistas, uma arqueogenealogia do masculino, a partir de um dispositivo de afetividade-sexualidade espec?fico de nossa cultura midi?tica. Nosso percurso anal?tico permite concluir que o trajeto tem?tico da subjetividade masculina afetiva sexual produz um trajeto sem?ntico que reafirma ideais hegem?nicos e heteronormativos, mais do que prop?e novas performances nas viv?ncias subjetivas masculinas. Em seus efeitos de verdade, esta pr?tica discursiva midi?tica busca ligar certos saberes afetivo sexuais aos modos de vida do sujeito masculino na atualidade, a partir de escolhas tem?ticas, modalidades enunciativas e estrat?gias discursivas espec?ficas desta m?dia masculina.
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MacCormack, Patricia (Patricia Anne) 1973. "Pleasure, perversion and death : three lines of flight for the viewing body." Monash University, Centre for Women's Studies and Gender Research, 2000. http://arrow.monash.edu.au/hdl/1959.1/7835.
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Alcântara, Kayse Luiza Oliveira de Carvalho. "Tensões discursivas em uma trajetória de estudos sobre a gravidez na adolescência." Universidade Federal de Sergipe, 2014. http://ri.ufs.br:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/5974.
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The present work has the aim the stresses between different ways of seeing and thinking about a given subject; in the specific case of this study, the conflict between discursive formations on teenage pregnancy. The interest in this subject has arisen from the perception of the existence of different speeches about teen pregnancy and the experience of questions in the research process beyond that of existing conflicts put in doubt the nature of truth. This perception was possible from the reflection of several previous studies, whose core were interviews with teenage mothers in 2007, in Recife, for a monographie, focused on the pregnancy in adolescents popular classes. In this study I noticed a conflict as a researcher, subjectivized by a discourse of domination not findind what was claimed, that teenage pregnancy is an experience that generates damage. This speech associates teen pregnancy usually with negative factors for both the mother, and the baby and as a problem that needs attention. Yet another speech, I will call here the resistance, sees the pregnancy based on the reality of life that teenager, so that we can understand the emergence of a pregnancy at that time of life, in all its context. This last speech, seems to reinforce notions of social recognition, desire and autonomy. From the notions of discourse, discursive formations, modes of subjectivity, power / toughness of Michel Foucault this study is to address the research perspective as historically determined by the fact of an era. The speech of the teenagers interviewed shows effects of subjectivity of the two types of speech that make the production of knowledge in theform of research as a field of stress that resonates in ways of thinking and acting of the researcher.O presente trabalho tem como problema tensões e conflitos entre diferentes modos de ver e pensar formações discursivas sobre gravidez na adolescência. O interesse por esse tema surgiu da percepção da existência de discursos diferentes sobre a gravidez na adolescência e da vivência de conflitos no processo de pesquisa que, para além dos conflitos existentes, põem em questão o caráter de verdade. Tal percepção foi possível a partir da reflexão de uma trajetória de estudos, cujo cerne é entrevistas feitas com mães adolescentes em 2007, na cidade de Recife, para monografia que investigava sentidos da gravidez em adolescentes de classes populares. Nestas entrevistas, percebi um conflito vivido enquanto pesquisadora que, há alguns anos, subjetivada por um discurso de dominação, tentava encontrar o que ele afirmava, a saber: a gravidez na adolescência é uma experiência que gera danos. Esse discurso coloca a gravidez na adolescência, geralmente associada a fatores negativos tanto para a mãe quanto para o bebê, como um problema que necessita de atenção. Já outro discurso, que chamarei aqui de resistência, vê a gravidez com base na realidade de vida da adolescente, a fim de entender o surgimento de uma gestação no seu momento, em todo seu contexto. Esse último discurso, parece reforçar noções de reconhecimento social, desejo e autonomia. A partir das noções de discurso, formações discursivas, modos de subjetivação, poder/resistência de Michel Foucault, este estudo tem como perspectiva tratar da pesquisa como historicamente determinada pela verdade de uma época. A fala das adolescentes entrevistadas mostra efeitos de subjetivação dos dois tipos de discurso que tornam a produção de conhecimento como um campo de tensões que repercute nos modos de pensar e agir da pesquisadora.
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BONFIM, Lihana Maria Catunda. "A sexualidade de adolescentes masculinos com experiência de rua e em situação de abrigo." http://www.teses.ufc.br, 2009. http://www.repositorio.ufc.br/handle/riufc/3361.
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BONFIM, Lihana Maria Catunda. A sexualidade de adolescentes masculinos com experiência de rua e em situação de abrigo. 2009. 169f. Tese (Doutorado em Educação) – Universidade Federal do Ceará. Faculdade de Educação, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Educação Brasileira, Fortaleza-CE, 2009.Submitted by Raul Oliveira (raulcmo@hotmail.com) on 2012-07-05T14:26:28Z No. of bitstreams: 1 2009_Tese_LMCBonfim.pdf: 603548 bytes, checksum: bb6211742c27dfda02e24cc878e2512c (MD5)
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A tese investiga a produção de sentidos da sexualidade de adolescentes masculinos com experiência de rua em situação de abrigo. A partir da produção de crianças e adolescentes pobres no Brasil em que historicamente a relação em governá-las passa inicialmente pelo poder pastoral chegando ao biopoder na contemporaneide. Fundamenta-se na perspectiva foucaultiana em que as relações de poder–saber são construídas fundamentalmente através das produções históricas e políticas do homem. Neste sentido, a sexualidade é considerada como um dispositivo histórico de poder na sociedade ocidental. Desta forma, dada à sua plasticidade, a sexualidade é utilizada como estratégia de ação da biopolítica com o objetivo disciplinar de controle social da população. A partir dos diversos discursos, práticas e saberes normalizadores existentes nas ciências humanas o foco destes discursos não se encontra na proibição mas na maneira como a sexualidade deve ser regulada, controlada e normatizada. Investigamos os processos de subjetivação dos adolescentes a partir da sua forma de ser, pensar, sentir e das suas vivências, passando pela experiência de rua e situação de permanência no abrigo. Na construção da pesquisa utilizamos técnicas, recursos e instrumentos que nos possibilitaram coletar os dados tais como, a observação, diário de campo, roteiro de vista, entrevista semi-estruturada e também a produção de colagem e desenho a partir da interpretação dos adolescentes. O exercício da sexualidade foi demarcado a partir da iniciação sexual deles. Constatamos através dos discursos deste grupo que há um feixe de aprendizagens que atravessam os saberes e as práticas sexuais relativos à sexualidade destes adolescentes, destacamos fundamentalmente a prática discursiva do abrigo através do modelo anátomo-biológico em que produz valor de verdade, apontando comportamentos, atitudes, na relação poder-saber da sexualidade associando-a à prevenção de doenças (DST’S e AIDS) e risco de gravidez. No entanto, os adolescentes apresentam os sentidos produzidos acerca da sexualidade para a ordem do prazer, da satisfação imediata, do tesão, de sensações agradáveis e boas. Dessa forma, escapam do discurso institucional através do afeto, da emoção que constituem os processos de formação de sua subjetividade.
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Marchand, Jean-Baptiste. "Traversée vers l’autre identité sexuée : transformation hormonale et chirurgicale et fonctionnement psychique." Thesis, Paris 10, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014PA100126/document.
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Objectif et problématique : Le transsexualisme ainsi que son traitement par la transformation hormonale et chirurgicale (THC) sont des phénomènes au carrefour de toutes les limites : corps, subjectivité, société, psyché… Face au constat de cette complexité, partant des approches structurale et déconstructiviste, cette thèse a pour objectif de définir et proposer une nouvelle approche « transversale » du transsexualisme, et dans la continuité de celle-ci de l’identité sexuée, avec les éléments de la théorie psychanalytique que sont la pulsion sexuelle de mort, la troisième topique de l’Inconscient clivé, la réalisation pulsionnelle par la perception et la clinique de l’extrême et de l’ordinaire.Matériel et méthode : Sur un échantillon de six sujets transsexuels masculin vers féminin ayant actuellement recours ou ayant eu recours à la THC depuis plus de deux ans, nous avons analysé les résultats à un entretien clinique inspiré de l’approche structurale, aux tests projectifs du rorschach et du TAT selon l’école projectiviste de Paris Descartes, ainsi qu’au MMPI-2. Nos trois hypothèses sont que la problématique identitaire transsexuelle renverrait à la pulsion sexuelle de mort, à l’Inconscient amential et à la clinique de l’extrême, puis que la THC aurait le potentiel d’agir telle une réalisation pulsionnelle par la perception.Résultats : Les résultats valident les deux premières hypothèses sur la pulsion sexuelle, l’Inconscient amential et la clinique de l’extrême, mais pas celle sur la réalisation pulsionnelle par la perception.Conclusion et discussion : Ces résultats montrent l’intérêt d’une approche transversale pour appréhender un phénomène limite comme le sont le transsexualisme et l’identité sexuée qui se voient éclairés par les éléments théoriques transversaux proposés (pulsion sexuelle de mort, Inconscient amential et clinique de l’extrême). Concernant, les effets de la THC au niveau psychique, il semble nécessaire de poursuivre notre investigation, la réalisation pulsionnelle par la perception ayant été validée chez un de nos deux sujets ayant terminé la THC depuis plus de deux ans, mais exclue chez l’autreObjective and problematic: the transsexualism as well as its treatment by the hormonal and surgical sex reassignment are phenomena in the crossroads of all the limits: body, subjectivity, society, psyche … In front of this complexity, running with the approaches structural and deconstructivist, this thesis has for objective to define and to propose a new "transversal" approach of the transsexualism, and in the continuity of this one of the sexed identity, with the elements of the psychoanalytical theory that are the sexual death drive, the third topical of the splited Unconscious, the impulsive realization by the perception and the clinical of the extreme and the ordinary.Material(Equipment) and method: on sample of six subjects transsexuals male to female resorting at present or having resorted to the sex reassignment for more than two years, we analyzed the results in a clinical interview inspired by the structural approach, in the projective tests of the rorschach and the TAT according to the projectivist method of Paris Descartes, as well as in the MMPI-2. Our three hypotheses are that the transsexual identity problematic would send back to the sexual death drive, to the amential Unconscious and to the clinical of the extreme, then that the sex reassignment would have the potential to act such as an impulsive realization by the perception.Results: the results validate both first ones hypothesis on the sex drive, the amential Unconscious and the clinical of the extreme, but not that one on the impulsive realization by the perception.Conclusion and discussion: these results show the interest of a transversal approach to dread a phenomenon borderline as are it the transsexualism and the sexed identity which see each other lit by the transversal theoretical proposed elements (sexual death drive, amential Unconscious and private hospital of the extreme). Concerning, the effects of psychic sex reassignment at the level, it seems necessary to pursue our investigation, the impulsive realization by the perception has been validated to one of our subject but excluded to the other one
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Saraiva, Luis Fernando de Oliveira. "A pedagogização das diferenças sexuais: o cinema como dispositivo educativo." Universidade de São Paulo, 2011. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/47/47131/tde-19072011-110706/.
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Com as transformações políticas, econômicas e sociais ocorridas a partir dos séculos XVII e XVIII, tem se intensificado um poder que se ocupa em gerir a vida e lhe extrair ao máximo suas forças, seja na produção de corpos individuais mais produtivos, seja no controle do corpo-espécie da população. Assim, ao mesmo tempo em que se torna hegemônico um modo de subjetivação no qual domina uma interioridade dotada de capacidades, desejos, virtualidades a serem descobertos, há uma crescente preocupação com fenômenos e processos da vida, transformados em taxas a serem medidas e previstas. No encontro entre indivíduo e população, a sexualidade, ponto fundamental na gestão da vida. Nesse contexto, o presente estudo teve por objetivo investigar modos de subjetivação acionados pelo cinema no que diz respeito às diferenças sexuais, fornecendo subsídios para a problematização de práticas ditas inclusivas. Em uma perspectiva teórico-metodológico pós-estruturalista que dialoga com a Teoria Crítica, tomou-se o cinema como um dispositivo educativo e governamentalizante, isto é, uma extremidade na qual o poder se exerce, visando o governo de corpos e da população. Inserido na lógica da indústria cultural, o cinema ensina estilos de vida, maneiras de ser e modos de se relacionar, construindo e legitimando identidades sociais, ao mesmo tempo em que desautoriza outras. A partir da análise de filmes indicados e/ou vencedores do Oscar na última década, percebeuse uma significativa mudança nas formas pelas quais personagens não-heterossexuais vêm sendo apresentados, apontando tanto para uma aparente ruptura com imagens pejorativas e estereotipadas, fomentadoras de preconceitos e exclusões, quanto para a incitação de processos subjetivadores nos quais dominam a domesticação das diferenças sexuais e abafamento de seu potencial contestatório e disruptivoWith the political, economic and social changes from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, has intensified a power that engages in life and manage to extract most of their forces, either in the production of individual bodies more productive, be in control of body-species population. Thus, while it becomes a hegemonic way of subjectivity in which one dominates inner endowed with abilities, desires, virtues to be discovered, there is a concern about the processes of life, transformed into rates to be measured and predicted. In the meeting between individual and population, sexuality, is a fundamental point in life management. In this context, this study has the objective to investigate ways of subjectivity regarding to sex differences, supporting the problematization of practices called \"inclusive. In a theoretical and methodological poststructuralist that dialogues with Critical Theory, cinema became an educational device and of governamentalization, ie an end in which power is exercised in order to government bodies and the public. In the logic of the culture industry, the film teaches lifestyles, ways of being and ways of relating, building and legitimating social identities at the same time that disallows others. From the analysis of nominated films and / or Academy Awards winners in the last decade, it was noticed a significant change in the ways non-heterosexual characters have been presented, pointing to an apparent break with negative images and stereotypes, that lead to actions of prejudice!and exclusion, as for the incitement of subjective processes in which dominate the domestication of sexual differences and smothering of their contesting and disruptive potential
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Romano, Hélène. "Enjeux psychiques des révélations d'abus sexuels en milieu scolaire." Rouen, 2003. http://www.theses.fr/2003ROUEL440.
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De la révélation spontanée, à la révélation du corps, de la révélation immediate à la révélation tardive, le chemin de la révélation de l'enfant qui dévoile les violences sexuelles qu'il a subies est un chemin de souffrance. Des milliers d'enfants vont à l'école tous les jours, parmi ces enfants il y a des enfants abusés victimes de violences sexuelles plus ou moins graves, il y a des enfants agressés dans leur cadre familial ou au sein même de l'institution scolaire. Parce que l'école est un espace quotidien d'interactions entre adultes et enfants c'est bien souvent l'endroit privilégié où la parole se libère, où l'enfant victime tente de révéler ce qu'il a subi. La révélation de violences sexuelles en milieu scolaire fait irruption dans la vie quotidienne d'un établissement qui n'est ni un lieu d'investigation médico-judiciaire, ni un lieu thérapeutique. Elle entraîne une contamination de sa souffrance, sur l'adulte confident, sur l'institution scolaire qui les accueille mettant en jeu toute la complexité de la vie psychique pulsionnelle et fantasmatique de chacun. La révélation met au jour les positions inconscientes des personnes qui y sont confrontées, leurs choix pulsionnels, leurs conflits œdipiens non résolus et déclenche des positions subjectives souvent ignorées d'eux-mêmes. Elle en révèle bien souvent la fragilité comme elle souligne les failles de l'institution scolaire. Notre recherche examine les conséquences au niveau intrapsychique et intersubjectif de l'onde de choc traumatique liée à la révélation d'abus sexuel. Nous interrogeons la dimension de triptyque traumatique de la révélation, c'est-à-dire ses conséquences pour l'enfant victime, pour l'adulte-relais confident de sa révélation, et pour l'institution scolaire. Avec pour objectif de mieux comprendre ce qui permettrait à la révélation de devenir un évenement positif susceptible de donner à l'enfant l'opportunité de vivre avec le traumatisme de l'abus et non plus de survuvre dans ce traumatismeFrom spontaneous revelation, to revealing of the body, from immediate to belated revelations, the child's path to revelation of sexual violence, is a path of suffering. Thousands of children go to school everyday and among them are abused children, victims of more or less aggravated sexual violence. There are children who have been abused within the family environment or even within their own school. As school is a space of interactions between adults and children, it is often a privileged sphere words may be spoken, where the child, victim of abuse, may try to reveal his suffering. Revelations of sexual violence in school enter a space which is neither a place of criminal investigation nor a medico-legal institution , nor a therapeutic setting. Such revelations entail a contamination of suffering upon the adult to whom the child has confided, upon the educational institution, in which the complexity of psychical instinctive and fantasy lif of concerned individuals comes into play. The revelation brings to light unconscious positions of the persons it confronts, as well as their instinctive choices, their unresolved œdipal conflicts, and triggers subjective positions which the person may not even be aware. Such revelations bring to light the fragility as well as the weak points in the school institution itself. Our research examines the consequences of such revelations on an interpsychical as well as intersubjective level. We base our analysis on the notion of the traumatic tryptich, that is to say, the consequences for the child victim, for the adult confidante, and for the school institution. Our aim is to understand what can help the revelation process to become a positive event which can give the child the opportunity of living with the trauma of abuse and not merely surviving
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Mooney-Somers, Julie, University of Western Sydney, of Arts Education and Social Sciences College, and School of Psychology. "Heterosexual male sexuality : representations and sexual subjectivity." 2005. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/24841.
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This research study explores the relationship between cultural representations of heterosexual male sexuality and heterosexual men’s sexuality. A critical realist framework is adopted to facilitate the examination of this topic with qualitative and quantitative methods; an analysis of representation in men’s magazines, an analysis of men’s accounts produced in individual and group interviews, and an analysis of a large-scale survey are undertaken. The findings of this study demonstrate that across age and relationship context, there is considerable variation in men’s experience of sexuality, negotiation of representations and in the consequences they experience. The findings of the study are significant for understanding heterosexual men’s subjectivity and sexual practices; the implications for sexual relationships , sexual coercion and violence, and for sexual health and education are considered throughout.Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) (Psychology)
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Lin, Chia Yen, and 林佳諺. "Rape or sexual subjectivity? Deviating adolescent`s family, school and sexuality." Thesis, 2011. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/12606310157127941585.
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According to Sexual Assault Prevention Act, Gender Equity Education Act, and Child & Youth Welfare Act, if a young girl has sexual behavior, as long as she is less than 16 years old, it will be viewed as sexual assault case and be notified to relative authority. In fact, over half of sexual assault cases happened under willingness. This weird situation tigers concerns and question in the society: What Happened to the young girls? However, while most researches are discussed in the view of mainstream values, few researches focused on teenager girls and their lived experiences. This ethnographic research looks at these “misbehavior girls”, their family, school experiences and their sexual practices. I found that girls came from working class families and experienced pains which were little-known. This resulted in their deviant behaviors and sake to rely on love as an alternative. The school, as a capitalist screening mechanism, identified middle-class values and judged students with conservative and heterosexual thinking. Teachers tried all the ways attempting to “ freeze” girls’ desire to explore their own bodies and require them to build the imagine of a “good girl”. Teachers thoguht it was “ignorant” or “incompetent” for girls to fall in love and practice sexual experience. They requested these girls for urgent “counseling.” However, “misbehavior girls" are actually extremely intelligent and creative. They not only saw through the patterns of family disputes and sake the way out of capital shortage, but also saw through that school to control their bodies in the name of "correcting deviant behavior". Even, they have seen through the mechanism of heterosexual virginity, and the gendered stereotypes that men are strong and women are weak. They had great ability to deal with or challenge the gendered sexual script in agreeing or disagreeing (having sex with someone else), or to play around on the borderlines. Nevertheless, in the course of sexual practices, there was also space for empowerment. Their lived experiences inspired me to think that the current sexual education is short-sighted and it neglects the real experiences of young girls. Both positive and negative sexual experiences could positively empower the decision-making power for girls in sexual practices ( Holland et.al, 2004). If the school could accept young girls’ sexual experience and assist these “misbehavior girls”, who are about to leave their primary homes and live independently, this will help to empower young girls. These girls might not repeat conflicts or disputes with their parents and develop capabilities to overcome other difficulties in their lives.
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Trumble, Kelly Lynn Standley Fred L. ""Her body is her own" Victorian feminists, sexual violence, and political subjectivity /." 2004. http://etd.lib.fsu.edu/theses/available/etd-02252004-172104.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Florida State University, 2004.Advisor: Dr. Fred Standley, Florida State University, College of Arts and Sciences, Dept. of English. Title and description from dissertation home page (viewed June 16, 2004). Includes bibliographical references.
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Elliott, Leigh. "Trafficking for sexual exploitation: the problems and insufficiencies in North American policy." Thesis, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/1828/10908.
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This work is a theoretical exploration that seeks to better understand the grooming process involved in some cases of domestic trafficking for sexual exploitation in North America. It theorizes the grooming process as a relation of power engaged in a strategy of subjection. The analysis points to how micropolitical deployments of disciplinary techniques restrict the fluidity of agency, enable the habituation of behaviour, modify thought processes, and produce consciousness.
This thesis also identifies two political problems in current anti-trafficking legislation and policies in North America. The first is that sex work has become conflated with trafficking for sexual exploitation. This conflation does not serve the interests of sex workers, as it has led to legislation that further criminalizes the sex industry, and to an increase in violence and exploitation within it. It also does not serve the needs of trafficked individuals, as it leads to trafficking being misunderstood, and renders anti-trafficking deployments ineffective as a result.
The second is that binary categorizations of consent (as tied to exploitation) in North American trafficking legislation are problematic and theoretically insufficient. Binary conceptions of consent are problematic because: (a) they enable a conflation of sex work and trafficking for sexual exploitation; (b) they force survivors or sex workers to relinquish their agency and identify as “victims” in order to work toward a conviction of their trafficker, or to avoid arrest or deportation; and (c) they emphasize a view of choice/consent that precludes an understanding of how an agent always works within limits that are unique to that individual. They are theoretically insufficient because they rely on liberal understandings of autonomy, which my engagement with Butler, Foucault, and affect theory critiques. This thesis makes the argument that there are varying degrees to which identity and consent are constructed through the production of subjectivities and the reorganization of preconscious thought processes. The “self”, consent, and judgment, are —to varying degrees— produced by external signifiers, institutions, and discourses. Thus, this work points to the need for a more nuanced approach to determine agency, one that does not rely upon binary and static categorizations.Graduate
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"Breaking the Silence: Reinforcing and Resisting Gender Norms Through Women's Masturbation." Doctoral diss., 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.24773.
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abstract: Based on the Foucauldian understanding that sexuality discourse operates as a powerful instrument for the regulation of societies and individuals, this research considers how internalized gender and sexuality discourses affect young women's embodied experiences of masturbation, and more broadly their sexual subjectivity and health. Drawing on interdisciplinary feminist perspectives on gender, sexuality, health, and embodiment, I examine female sexual health within a positive rights framework. That is, I view the rights to both sexual safety and pleasure as essential components of female sexual health, and conceptualize girls and young women as potential sexual agents. By asking young women about their lived experiences of self-pleasure, this research challenges not only the historical legacy of pathologizing female desire and pleasure, but also scholars' tendency to construct female sexuality solely in a heteronormative, partnered context. Based on focus groups, interviews, journals, and questionnaires collected from 109 female college students from diverse ethnic, religious, and sexuality backgrounds in Arizona and Michigan, I employ grounded theory to analyze individual feelings and experiences in the context of larger societal discourses. My findings indicate that when girls internalize negative discourses about masturbation (e.g. as sin or secular stigma), general heteronormative sexuality discourses, and a silence around female self-pleasure, there are severe negative consequences for how they understand and experience masturbation. I argue that they engage in sexual self-surveillance that often results in emotional and physical struggles, as well as the re-inscription of hegemonic cultural discourses on female masturbation, bodies, desire, and pleasure. By illustrating how even the most private and `invisible' behavior of masturbation can become a site for regulating female sexuality, this research provides important evidence of the power of increasingly covert mechanisms to govern gendered bodies and subjectivities through self-surveillance. Alternatively, this research also highlights the potential of normalizing self-pleasure for increasing girls' and young women's capacity for resisting oppressive gender and sexuality discourses and behaviors, developing an agentic sexual subjectivity, and feeling sexually empowered. Thus, this research also has practical implications for conceptualizing sexual health for girls and young women in a way that includes the rights to sexual safety and pleasure.Dissertation/Thesis
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Serpa-Francoeur, Jenny Rose. "Exploring the sexual lives and sexual health of transnational Filipino youth in southwestern British Columbia, Canada." Thesis, 2017. https://dspace.library.uvic.ca//handle/1828/8887.
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This research addresses how transnational Filipino youth living in southwestern British Columbia negotiate their sexual lives and sexual health decisions, and how they do so within the context of individual, familial, and community dynamics. The research explores how youth contest and negotiate notions of sexuality that are discursively constructed and constituted through familial expectations, religious ideals, peer expectations and pressure, societal expectations, and sexual education curricula.
Sexual subjectivities are shaped by the social and geographic locations individuals inhabit. My interviews with youth explored dynamic ways in which these youth enacted their sexual lives in the context of their position as transnational Filipino youth, and in turn how their positions as transnational Filipino youth interacted with and impacted their sexual subjectivities. I argue that while opinions and expectations of friends and family, as well as cultural norms and religious expectations impact youth's sexual subjectivities, youth nonetheless perceive themselves as the primary decision-makers in their sexual lives. This research shows dynamic ways in which youth enact their agency and control their sexual decisions and sexual lives.
This research was conducted between August 2016 and March 2017 in southwest British Columbia (BC) in two main locations, the Southern Vancouver Island (SVI) region and the Vancouver/Greater Vancouver Area (GVA). I conducted a series of in-depth, semi-structured interviews and engaged in informal personal engagement activities (i.e. "deep hanging out") with ten transnational Filipino youth between the ages of 19 and 25 who live and study at the post-secondary level in SVI. I also conducted interviews with adult community members, experts in the sexual health field, scholars working with Filipino youth, and staff from migrant youth organizations in SVI and the GVA.Graduate
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Armstrong, Nicola. "Flexible work and disciplined selves : telework, gender and discourses of subjectivity : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Sociology at Massey University." 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/10179/1302.
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Home-based work employing information and communications technologies (telework) is held up in contemporary academic literatures, policy formulations and the popular media as the cure to a panoply of contemporary problems, particularly the difficulties of combining caring responsibilities and careers. This thesis takes up the question of how teleworkers talk about and practise home-based business. It pivots on the exploration of the simultaneity of parenting, partnering and paid work for home-based business people. The 'teleworking tales' of eleven home-based entrepreneurs form the heart of the thesis, as they discuss their negotiation of 'home' and 'work' where the usual temporal and spatial boundaries between these arenas are removed. While previous studies assume that telework is 'family-friendly', most do not investigate the perspectives of other family members on the effect of home-based business on their households and relationships. This thesis speaks into this silence in the literature by contextualising telework within family relations, including as participants the partners, children and child care workers of the eleven home-based businesswomen and men, interviewing thirty people in all. Three strands of analysis regarding discourses of the organisation, domesticity and entrepreneurship were pursued in relation to these 'teleworking tales'. It was found that these 'tales' were told differently by teleworking women and men, the women focusing on the untenable nature of continued organisational employment as women and mothers, while the men established home-based businesses because of declining employment security and redundancy. In the midst of these constituting relations, the discursive injunction to be a 'fit worker' and a 'good parent' had different implications for the women and men; where as the women negotiated home-based entrepreneurship through domesticity, the men navigated their way around domesticity in order to maintain a singular focus on their businesses. The effect of the cross-cutting axes of domesticity and entrepreneurship significantly curtailed the opportunity for teleworking to represent a new crafting of the relationship between 'home' and 'work' as teleworkers negotiated the simultaneous demands their families and businesses made upon them. It was also the case that home-based businesses were a source of pleasure and of productive forms of power which encouraged home-based entrepreneurs to watch over and discipline themselves. The research unfolds as both a warning and a promise with regard to the 'choice' to telework, in terms of what is 'chosen' and how that is 'controlled'. It is particularly a contribution to current debates regarding the complex patterning of gendered and familial practices which continually fragment the freedoms promised by the discourse of entrepreneurship.
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