Sexual Meanings
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What Is Sexuality And How Do Its Meanings Relate To Sex And Gender
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Author : Sophie Koch Feoranzo
language : en
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Release Date : 2021-02-15
What Is Sexuality And How Do Its Meanings Relate To Sex And Gender written by Sophie Koch Feoranzo and has been published by GRIN Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-02-15 with Social Science categories.
Essay from the year 2017 in the subject Sociology - Relationships and Family, grade: 1,3, LMU Munich (Institut für Soziologie und Gender Studies), course: Sociology of Gender, language: English, abstract: In my essay, I intend to examine what sexuality is and how its meanings relate to sex and gender. In doing this, I will first present a definition of sexuality and different axes of sexuality. Then, I will analyse sexuality’s link with gender as well as sex by deconstructing these terms into distinct categories. Furthermore, I will explore the interrelated impact that these terms and categories have by taking an intersectional approach. Sexuality is and has been a major theme within our culture. Thanks to social research, we have been provided with crucial evidence to help in better understanding the concept of sexuality and its complexity. Despite this, popular stereotypes and perceptions regarding sex, gender, and sexuality remain resistant and continue to persevere within society. In stating this, my intent is to raise awareness and demonstrate a better understanding of sexuality’s complexity.
Sexuality And Its Discontents
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Author : Jeffrey Weeks
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2002-05-03
Sexuality And Its Discontents written by Jeffrey Weeks and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-05-03 with Psychology categories.
Few topics evoke so much anxiety and pleasure, pain and hope, discussion and silence as sexuality. Throughout the Christian era it has been a major moral preoccupation. Since the eighteenth century it has also been the focus of 'scientific' exploration and political activity. But, despite this obsessive concern, we are still as baffled as our predecessors about the 'true' meaning of sex. In this book Jeffrey Weeks unravels the dense web of historical, theoretical and political forces that have culminated in the contemporary crisis of sexual meanings and values. The book begins with a powerful evocation of our present discontents and their potent signs: the rise of the New Right, the retreat of progressive forces and a wave of moral panics around sex. It argues that this crisis is rooted in a tradition which has ascribed an inflated importance to sexuality, whilst claiming a privileged access to truth. The author then examines radical debates of recent years, and asks whether they contain the potentiality for taking us beyond the existing boundaries of sexuality. From this analysis emerges a controversial 'radical pluralist' approach to sexuality built on an acceptance of diversity and choice. By linking our present discontents to a clear understanding of the past, Jeffrey Weeks presents a rational, optimistic and challenging vision of a realizable future.
Sexual Meanings
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Author : Sherry B. Ortner
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1981-12-31
Sexual Meanings written by Sherry B. Ortner and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1981-12-31 with Social Science categories.
This 1996 collection of essays deals with the ways in which sex and gender are socially organized and conceptually construed in various cultures. Its scope is not limited to a series of cross-cultural issues of sex roles and sexual status but rather encompasses a wide range of sex-related practices and beliefs. Ceremonial virginity in Polynesian ritual androgynism in New Guinea, the valorization of young African bachelors, and fantasies of male self-sufficiency in South American myth are among the subjects discussed. Taken in their totality, these essays demonstrate that cultural notions sexuality and gender are seldom straightforward extrapolations of biological facts but are the outcome of social and cultural processes. The book is not only a compendium of symbolic approaches to gender but is also an important statement of the theoretical directions in anthropological research in this field.
Sexual Meanings The Cultural Construction Of Gender And Sexuality
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Author : Harriet Whitehead
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1987
Sexual Meanings The Cultural Construction Of Gender And Sexuality written by Harriet Whitehead and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987 with Sex role categories.
On The Meaning Of Sex
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Author : J. Budziszewski
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2023-07-11
On The Meaning Of Sex written by J. Budziszewski and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-07-11 with Philosophy categories.
Our society is obsessed with sex - and yet we don't understand it at all. Acclaimed philosopher J. Budziszewski remedies the problem in this wise, gracefully written book about the nature, meaning, and mysteries of sexuality. On the Meaning of Sex corrects the most prevalent errors about sex - particularly those of the sexual revolution, which by mistaking pleasure for a good in itself has caused untold pain and suffering.
Women S Sexuality Across The Life Span
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Author : Judith C. Daniluk
language : en
Publisher: Guilford Press
Release Date : 2003-06-09
Women S Sexuality Across The Life Span written by Judith C. Daniluk and has been published by Guilford Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-06-09 with Psychology categories.
Moving beyond a traditional focus on sexual functioning, this book emphasizes the complex interaction of psychological, social, cultural and biological influences on womens's sense of themselves as sexual beings. Written for practitioners and educators, its goal is to challenge contradictory messages and meanings that cause many women to feel disconnected from their bodies and from their needs and desires. Themes explored include the development of sexual awareness and sexuality in childhood and adolescence, the critical sexual choices of young adulthood, and the multiple transitions characterizing the middle and later years of life. The book features creative exercises and interventions to help girls and women construct more affirming sexual meanings.
Sexuality And Its Discontents
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Author : Jeffrey Weeks
language : en
Publisher: London ; Boston : Routledge & K. Paul
Release Date : 1985-01-01
Sexuality And Its Discontents written by Jeffrey Weeks and has been published by London ; Boston : Routledge & K. Paul this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1985-01-01 with Electronic books categories.
Few topics evoke so much anxiety and pleasure, pain and hope, discussion and silence as sexuality. Throughout the Christian era it has been a major moral preoccupation. Since the eighteenth century it has also been the focus of 'scientific' exploration and political activity. But, despite this obsessive concern, we are still as baffled as our predecessors about the 'true' meaning of sex. In this book Jeffrey Weeks unravels the dense web of historical, theoretical and political forces that have culminated in the contemporary crisis of sexual meanings and values. The book begins with a powerful evocation of our present discontents and their potent signs: the rise of the New Right, the retreat of progressive forces and a wave of moral panics around sex. It argues that this crisis is rooted in a tradition which has ascribed an inflated importance to sexuality, whilst claiming a privileged access to truth. The author then examines radical debates of recent years, and asks whether they contain the potentiality for taking us beyond the existing boundaries of sexuality. From this analysis emerges a controversial 'radical pluralist' approach to sexuality built on an acceptance of diversity and choice. - from Google Books.
The Languages Of Sexuality
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Author : Jeffrey Weeks
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2011-08-26
The Languages Of Sexuality written by Jeffrey Weeks and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-08-26 with Social Science categories.
Words, Freud once wrote, are magic. Nowhere have words been more magical than in the writing of sexuality. Through words and concepts we learn what is good or bad, pleasurable or painful, significant and insignificant. The terms we use about sexuality do not simply describe something out there. They help shape what sexuality is. The Languages of Sexuality offers concise and incisive essays on key words and concepts which have played a significant role in shaping our understanding of contemporary sexualities and intimacies. Nearly a hundred essays illuminate the terms related to sexuality in fresh, and often unexpected ways, with entries ranging from ‘abjection’ and ‘abortion’ to ‘transgender and ‘Viagra’. Written with clarity, insight and passion by an internationally renowned theorist of sexuality, this book is not only an invaluable handbook, but also a personal exploration of the fluid, shifting, ever evolving meanings of sexual life as reflected and refracted through words and concepts. This book is an invaluable resource for both students and researchers with interests relating to sexuality and intimate life, gender studies, cultural studies, history and sociology. It will also appeal to a wider audience interested in critical debates about the nature and meanings of contemporary sexualities.
A Dictionary Of Sexual Language And Imagery In Shakespearean And Stuart Literature
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Author : Gordon Williams
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2001-09-13
A Dictionary Of Sexual Language And Imagery In Shakespearean And Stuart Literature written by Gordon Williams and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-09-13 with Literary Criticism categories.
Providing an alphabetical listing of sexual language and locution in 16th and 17th-century English, this book draws especially on the more immediate literary modes: the theatre, broadside ballads, newsbooks and pamphlets. The aim is to assist the reader of Shakespearean and Stuart literature to identify metaphors and elucidate meanings; and more broadly, to chart, through illustrative quotation, shifting and recurrent linguistic patterns. Linguistic habit is closely bound up with the ideas and assumptions of a period, and the figurative language of sexuality across this period is highly illuminating of socio-cultural change as well as linguistic development. Thus the entries offer as much to those concerned with social history and the history of ideas as to the reader of Shakespeare or Dryden.
What Is Sexual History
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Author : Jeffrey Weeks
language : en
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 2016-06-07
What Is Sexual History written by Jeffrey Weeks and has been published by John Wiley & Sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-06-07 with History categories.
Until the 1970s the history of sexuality was a marginalized practice. Today it is a flourishing field, increasingly integrated into the mainstream and producing innovative insights into the ways in which societies shape and are shaped by sexual values, norms, identities and desires. In this book, Jeffrey Weeks, one of the leading international scholars in the subject, sets out clearly and concisely how sexual history has developed, and its implications for our understanding of the ways we live today. The emergence of a new wave of feminism and lesbian and gay activism in the 1970s transformed the subject, heavily influenced by new trends in social and cultural history, radical sociological insights and the impact of Michel Foucault’s work. The result was an increasing emphasis on the historical shaping of sexuality, and on the existence of many different sexual meanings and cultures on a global scale. With chapters on, amongst others, lesbian, gay and queer history, feminist sexual history, the mainstreaming of sexual history, and the globalization of sexual history, What is Sexual History? is an indispensable guide to these developments.