Although the history of anthropology shows various shifts in the way sexuality has been theorised, studies of the relation between sexuality and bodily sensations have remained limited. In this article I explore the concept of body‐sensorial knowledge to understand the relation between the social significance of sexuality and erotic sensations. I argue that the sensual qualities of sexuality are mediators and shapers of social knowledge that help to understand how causal relations, such as the reconfiguration of culture, gender and sexuality in postcolonial Kenyan society, are registered in people's self‐perceptions.
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Sexuality and subjectivity
Erotic practices and the question of bodily sensations
Rachel Spronk
In Social Anthropology/Anthropologie sociale
- Published (Print):
- 01 Feb 2014
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 3–21 (18 total)
Sexuality in Contemporary Arab Society
Abdessamad Dialmy
Arab scholarship of sexuality is currently emerging against many obstacles. This article provides a suggestive introduction to the current state of knowledge in the area. After briefly sketching an archetype of Arab sexuality, especially its peculiar form of phallocracy, new sexual trends are reviewed, some of which adapt current practices to Shari'a law (e.g., visitation marriages), while others break with it altogether (e.g., prostitution). The article then discusses three distinctive areas of public and policy concerns in the region, namely, honor killings, impotence and Viagra use, and sex-education programs that are precipitated by concerns over HIV/AIDS. The essay concludes with an assessment of some of the main challenges still facing research into the topic in the Arab Islamic world.
Women and Sexuality in Contemporary Iran
When HIV Meets Government Morality
Kristin Soraya Batmanghelichi
In Iran, as in many countries worldwide, misinformation and ignorance of HIV/AIDS have encouraged a culture of secrecy and anonymity for those living with HIV. For many HIV-positive women, religious, political and economic pressures complicate their social status and access to health care. Moreover, they must contend with societal discrimination and stigmas associated with the condition. Adding nuance to contemporary studies on gender and sexuality in Iran, this report highlights the colourful narratives of a select group of HIV-positive mothers attending weekly wellness workshops in Tehran. Discussing issues of intimacy, modesty, motherhood and stigmatisation, this article explores one of Iran's expanding communities at risk of infection and the ways in which women with HIV negotiate the stigma of their condition in an Islamic Republic.
In Anthropology of the Middle East
- Published (Print):
- 01 Dec 2014
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 108–124 (17 total)
Hiding Sexuality
The Disappearance of Sexual Discourse in the Late Ottoman Middle East
Dror Ze'evi
From Belgrade to Baghdad, from Algiers to Aleppo, sexual discourse in the pre-modern Ottoman world was rich and variegated. Its manifestations were to be found in literature and poetry, in medicine and physiognomy, in religious writings and popular culture. During the nineteenth century, much of this panoply of discussions about sex disappeared or was attenuated to such an extent that it became virtually non-existent. A similar phenomenon can be perceived in Western European attitudes toward sex several decades earlier. Yet while in Europe the old sexual discursive world was replaced with a new one in short order, the Ottoman Middle East did not produce a new sexual discourse to replace the one that vanished. This article presents some of the premises of the old Ottoman sexual discourse, describes the process of their demise, and suggests an explanation for the failure to produce a new (textual) discourse of sex.
To “Lure On the Gentle Reader”
Approaching Historical Representations of Gender and Sexuality in the Arctic through Rockwell Kent's Salamina
Susan B. Vanek and Jette Rygaard
. Interrogations of such constructions are necessary to shed light on persistent underlying hierarchies of power and inequality built around ideas of gender, sexuality, and race, including their enduring legacy of violence against Indigenous women and girls. Yet
Processual Aesthetics and Feminist Trouble
The Comics of Rikke Villadsen
Charlotte Johanne Fabricius
Foundation. Villadsen's comics artistry expresses curiosity about the destabilising forces of sexuality and a commitment to gender trouble. This creative impulse is used to satirise genres such as the seaman's tale ( Ind fra havet [In from the sea
In European Comic Art
- Published (Print):
- 01 Mar 2022
- Article Type:
- Research Article
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- 87–108 (22 total)
The Problem of Modern Pederasty in Queer History
A Case Study of Norman Douglas
Rachel Hope Cleves
In a December 2018 state-of-the-field essay titled “The Power of Queer History,” Regina Kunzel itemizes all the ways in which recent scholarship has highlighted sexuality's function as a conduit of power. Her survey, which focuses on US history
In Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques
- Published (Print):
- 01 Mar 2020
- Article Type:
- Research Article
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- 47–61 (15 total)
Sexuality, Masculinity, and Intellectual Disability
Beyond a Focus on Regulation and Vicarious Illusions
Nathan J. Wilson and David Charnock
Research, scholarship, and theorizing about the intersection of sexuality and masculinity for men and boys with intellectual disability remains, at best, seriously limited despite decades of theorizing in the international field of masculinities
In Journal of Bodies, Sexualities, and Masculinities
- Published (Print):
- 01 Mar 2021
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 82–101 (20 total)
Ambivalent Sexualities in a Transnational Context
Romanian and Bulgarian Migrant Male Sex Workers in Berlin
Victor Trofimov
sexualities. I argue that the sexual ambiguity Sergio exposed in his verbal and nonverbal behavior is neither unique for him nor merely an individual characteristic of his persona. Instead, the contradiction between Sergio's corporeal enactment of his
In Journal of Bodies, Sexualities, and Masculinities
- Published (Print):
- 01 Sep 2020
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 64–83 (20 total)
Latina Girls’ Sexual Education in the (New) Latinx Diaspora
Katherine Clonan-Roy
Introduction Across child and adolescent development, girls often learn to associate sexuality with discourses of violence, victimization, and individual morality ( Fine 1988 ). They learn these associations through diverse resources and
In Girlhood Studies
- Published (Print):
- 01 Jul 2019
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 65–81 (17 total)