Author : L. Allen
Publisher : Springer
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 29,70 MB
Release : 2005-09-08
Category : Education
ISBN : 0230500986
Educating young people about sex and sexuality remains one of the most controversial and political areas of the school curriculum. Drawing on young people's own understandings of their sexual selves, knowledge and practices Sexual Subjects considers the implications for how we conceptualize the effectiveness of sexuality education. Reshaping thinking around youthful (hetero)sexualities Sexual Subjects challenges current approaches to teaching about sex and sexuality.
Author : Adria E. Schwartz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 25,55 MB
Release : 2013-08-21
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1135219648
Sexual Subjects, a psychoanalytic book informed by gender theory, queer theory and feminism, addresses the tensions inherent in writing about lesbians and sexuality in the postmodern age. Adria Schwartz masterfully intertwines clinical anecdotes with engaging theoretical questions that examine the construction of important categories of identity--woman, feminist, mother, lesbian, and homo/hetero/bisexual. Schwartz also addresses specific issues which are problematic but nonetheless meaningful to self-identified lesbians such as roles in gender play, lesbian "bed death," and raising non-traditional families. Written from a psychoanalytic and postmodern perspective, this book is a significant contribution to the work done on the conceptualization of lesbian sexuality and identity.
Author : Elizabeth Bernstein
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 18,66 MB
Release : 2019-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 022657380X
Brokered Subjects digs deep into the accepted narratives of sex trafficking to reveal the troubling assumptions that have shaped both right- and left-wing agendas around sexual violence. Drawing on years of in-depth fieldwork, Elizabeth Bernstein sheds light not only on trafficking but also on the broader structures that meld the ostensible pursuit of liberation with contemporary techniques of power. Rather than any meaningful commitment to the safety of sex workers, Bernstein argues, what lies behind our current vision of trafficking victims is a transnational mix of putatively humanitarian militaristic interventions, feel-good capitalism, and what she terms carceral feminism: a feminism compatible with police batons.
Author : Claudia Moscovici
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 36,99 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780415918114
Moscovici traces some of the ruptures and continuities between the 18th century masculinist formulations of subjectivity and the contemporary postmodern and feminist critiques of the universal subject.
Author : Claudia Moscovici
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 12,43 MB
Release : 2020-11-25
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1000143376
From Sex Objects to Sexual Subjects traces some of the ruptures and continuities between the eighteenth-century masculinist formulations of subjectivity elaborated by Rousseau, Diderot and Kant and the contemporary postmodern and feminist critiques of the universal subject--meaning the self viewed as an abstract individual who exercises an impartial and rational (political) judgment that is idential to other similarly defined individuals--developed by Luce Irigaray, Francois Lyotard, Jacques Derrida, Jurgen Habermas, Nancy Fraser, Judith Butler and Michel Foucault. In her work, Moscovici brings together the wide-ranging discussion of subjectivity with debates about public discourse. In so doing she attempts a synthesis between the two discussions that have recently engaged feminist theorists and others.
Author : Rosi Braidotti
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 15,83 MB
Release : 2011-05-24
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 023151526X
For more than fifteen years, Nomadic Subjects has guided discourse in continental philosophy and feminist theory, exploring the constitution of contemporary subjectivity, especially the concept of difference within European philosophy and political theory. Rosi Braidotti's creative style vividly renders a productive crisis of modernity. From a feminist perspective, she recasts embodiment, sexual difference, and complex concepts through relations to technology, historical events, and popular culture. This thoroughly revised and expanded edition retains all but two of Braidotti's original essays, including her investigations into epistemology's relation to the "woman question;" feminism and biomedical ethics; European feminism; and the possible relations between American feminism and European politics and philosophy. A new piece integrates Deleuze and Guattari's concept of the "becoming-minoritarian" more deeply into modern democratic thought, and a chapter on methodology explains Braidotti's methods while engaging with her critics. A new introduction muses on Braidotti's provocative legacy.
Author : Richard Parker
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 39,2 MB
Release : 2000-01-23
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780520218383
Focusing on the social and political dimensions of sexual experience, this book examines the social construction of sexual subjectivities, the dynamics of sexual oppression, and the struggle for sexual rights and empowerment in countries and cultures around the globe.
Author : Badia Ahad-Legardy
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 32,58 MB
Release : 2023
Category : Gender identity
ISBN : 9781003444220
"This collection of essays from scholars across disciplines, institutions, and ranks offers diverse and multifaceted approaches to teaching about subjects that prove challenging and often uncomfortable for both the professor and the student. It encourages college educators to engage in forms of practice that do not pretend teachers and students are unaffected by world events and incidents that highlight social inequalities. Readers will find the collected essays useful for identifying new approaches to taking on the "difficult subjects" of race, gender, and sexuality."--Back cover.
Author : Jessica Benjamin
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 50,87 MB
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780300074307
In this important book, a well-known psychoanalyst and feminist makes a case for what she calls "gender heterodoxy"-a highly original view of the similarities and differences between the sexes-and, in the process, illuminates aspects of love, sexuality, aggression, and pornography.
Author : Lisa M. Diamond
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 12,53 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780674026247
Is love “blind” when it comes to gender? For women, it just might be. This unsettling and original book offers a radical new understanding of the context-dependent nature of female sexuality. Lisa M. Diamond argues that for some women, love and desire are not rigidly heterosexual or homosexual but fluid, changing as women move through the stages of life, various social groups, and, most important, different love relationships.This perspective clashes with traditional views of sexual orientation as a stable and fixed trait. But that view is based on research conducted almost entirely on men. Diamond is the first to study a large group of women over time. She has tracked one hundred women for more than ten years as they have emerged from adolescence into adulthood. She summarizes their experiences and reviews research ranging from the psychology of love to the biology of sex differences. Sexual Fluidity offers moving first-person accounts of women falling in and out of love with men or women at different times in their lives. For some, gender becomes irrelevant: “I fall in love with the person, not the gender,” say some respondents.Sexual Fluidity offers a new understanding of women’s sexuality—and of the central importance of love.
