Témakiírások
Critical Study of Sexualities A kutatási program vázlata: A kutatási téma leírása: This course offers critical approaches to sexuality/gender issues from a Central East
témakiírás címe
Critical Study of Sexualities A kutatási program vázlata: A kutatási téma leírása: This course offers critical approaches to sexuality/gender issues from a Central East
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tudományág
témakiírás leírása
This course offers critical approaches to sexuality/gender issues from a Central Eastern European social scientific perspective, by focusing on factors that influence how different sets of knowledge on sexualities have been constructed and deconstructed, used and misused socially. One of the main aims of this course is to raise awareness about the suspect character of mutually exclusive dichotomies such as the heterosexual/homosexual, man/woman, feminine/masculine categories, while comparing the relatively well-known Western theoretical frameworks and findings to the sexuality/gender themes in Central Eastern Europe, which are slowly but surely gaining increasing interest and importance.
Studying sexuality is interpreted as a broad field including subjects like culture-specific normative power regimes that can define the sexually un/natural, ab/normal, and un/healthy; sexual meaning production; sexual/intimate citizens and citizenship as well as various sexual actors and acts (including the reproductive sex of the heterosexual couple, the changing contents of perverse pleasures and sexual subversives). Since sexual power regimes, meanings, citizens, and acts are embedded in the cultural matrix of gender norms, the intersectionality of sexuality (sexual orientations, sexual preferences, sexual identities) and gender (gender identities, gender role identities, gender expressions) categories is readily recognized, but the interpretational potential of other category memberships, including ethnicity and class, will also be acknowledged.
First we shall focus on theoretical concepts, such as biopower (Foucault), sexual stigma (Plummer), identity threats (Breakwell), structural oppression (Young), transformation of intimacy (Giddens), minority stress (Brooks), hegemonic/subordinated masculinity (Connell), heterosexual matrix (Butler), sexual citizenship (Evans), queer intersectionality (Rosenblum), and sketch out useful general frameworks to aid us in our further analyses – followed by the (re)interpretation of empirical findings regarding patriarchal functions of intergenerational homosexuality in semen-centred societies; ethnographic accounts of third gender categories and their ir/relevance to modern transsexuality; measurement of different aspects of sexual orientation in survey research (including sexual behaviour, sexual attraction, sexual fantasies, emotional preference, social preference, lifestyle preference, sexual identity, as well as different partner preferences in each of the given aspects and certain variations in time); and the social exclusion of LGBT people.
Studying sexuality is interpreted as a broad field including subjects like culture-specific normative power regimes that can define the sexually un/natural, ab/normal, and un/healthy; sexual meaning production; sexual/intimate citizens and citizenship as well as various sexual actors and acts (including the reproductive sex of the heterosexual couple, the changing contents of perverse pleasures and sexual subversives). Since sexual power regimes, meanings, citizens, and acts are embedded in the cultural matrix of gender norms, the intersectionality of sexuality (sexual orientations, sexual preferences, sexual identities) and gender (gender identities, gender role identities, gender expressions) categories is readily recognized, but the interpretational potential of other category memberships, including ethnicity and class, will also be acknowledged.
First we shall focus on theoretical concepts, such as biopower (Foucault), sexual stigma (Plummer), identity threats (Breakwell), structural oppression (Young), transformation of intimacy (Giddens), minority stress (Brooks), hegemonic/subordinated masculinity (Connell), heterosexual matrix (Butler), sexual citizenship (Evans), queer intersectionality (Rosenblum), and sketch out useful general frameworks to aid us in our further analyses – followed by the (re)interpretation of empirical findings regarding patriarchal functions of intergenerational homosexuality in semen-centred societies; ethnographic accounts of third gender categories and their ir/relevance to modern transsexuality; measurement of different aspects of sexual orientation in survey research (including sexual behaviour, sexual attraction, sexual fantasies, emotional preference, social preference, lifestyle preference, sexual identity, as well as different partner preferences in each of the given aspects and certain variations in time); and the social exclusion of LGBT people.
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ELTE TÁTK
jelentkezési határidő
2012-05-14