Silvandre's Symposium: The Platonic and the Ambiguous in L'Astrée

1999 ◽  
Vol 52 (3) ◽  
pp. 782-804
Author(s):  
Laurence A. Gregorio
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Identity ◽  
Middle Ground ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Magnetic Theory ◽  
Intended Effect ◽  
Ideological Context ◽  
Thematic Plan

AbstractImprecision appears to be the intended effect of the thematic plan of Honoré d'Urfé's L'Astrée, especially where signs of sexual identity are concerned. This study proposes a reading which, on two bases, accommodates the romance's semiotic vagueness. First, the ideological context of Neoplatonism clarifies the work's ongoing "Symposium" on love. The roots of this dialogue may be traced to Plato's Symposium and magnetic theory which foreshadow L'Astreé's tendency toward character self-representation on a middle ground between male and female. Second, evidence of a structure of ambiguity in other areas of the romance's composition corroborates the argument.

WRITING THE MODERN HISTORIES OF HOMOSEXUAL ENGLAND

2009 ◽  
Vol 52 (1) ◽  
pp. 213-233 ◽  
Author(s):  
BARRY REAY
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Identity ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Sexual Histories ◽  
Queer History ◽  
Men And Masculinity

ABSTRACTThe most useful sexual histories are those that provide depth of context without either assuming sexual identity or anticipating its complete absence; those that do not force taxonomies; histories that resist any simple teleological account of a shift from ‘homosexuality’ as sexual excess to the homosexual as a species. This review examines attempts to write such histories – what has recently been termed the ‘new British queer history’. I will focus on some strands of male and female same-sex desires and their expression in England in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries: male and female same-sex friendships, effeminacy in men and masculinity in women; and representations of lesbianism. This review discusses these histories of desires that resist present-day sexual assumptions.

androgyny

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luc Brisson
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Identity ◽  
Ancient Greece ◽  
The Other ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Object Choice ◽  
The One ◽  
Sexual Object

In the modern use, “bisexuality” refers to sexual object choice, whereas “androgyny” refers to sexual identity. In ancient Greece and Rome, however, these terms sometimes refer to human beings born with characteristics of both sexes, and more frequently to an adult male who plays the role of a woman, or to a woman who has the appearance of a man, both physically and morally. In mythology, having both sexes simultaneously or successively characterises, on the one hand, the first human beings, animals, or even plants from which arose male and female, and on the other, mediators between human beings and gods, the living and the dead, men and women, past and future, and human generations. Thus androgyny and bisexuality were used as a tools to cope with one’s biological, social, and even fictitious environment.

COSMIC OUTLOOK IN SOME WORSHIP RITUALS OF THE EDE PEOPLE IN BUON MA THUOT

2020 ◽  
Vol 65 (11) ◽  
pp. 35-44
Author(s):  
Vinh Mai Trong An
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Ethnic Group ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Middle Ground ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Current Context ◽  
The Universe

For the Ede people, the universe is a combination of three horizons, including the upper sky, middle ground and lower ground. On those three horizons, gods reside and dominate almost activities in the daily life of the Ede people. The concepts of the Ede's cosmology are imbued with idealistic thought, it personalizes all phenomena and things surrounding human life. Therefore, Ede people always think that humans were male and female. Besides, in the universe of Ede, sevenis always a sacred and wonderful number because it is believed to give people warmth and peace. All these things are expressed almost comprehensively and completely in the worshiping ritual of the Ede people, hence the study of the cosmic outlook in the Ede people’s worship ritual is meaningful regarding theory and reality in preserving and promoting values in the cultural identity of the Ede people in Buon Ma Thuot in the current context, when the increasingly strong globalization in Vietnam has influenced the cultural identity of this ethnic group to change under the trend of gradual fading.

scholarly journals Significance of temporal and spectral acoustic cues for sexual recognition in Xenopus laevis

2006 ◽  
Vol 274 (1609) ◽  
pp. 479-488 ◽  
Author(s):  
Clémentine Vignal ◽  
Darcy Kelley
Keyword(s):  
Xenopus Laevis ◽  
Sexual Identity ◽  
Carrier Frequency ◽  
Temporal Pattern ◽  
Acoustic Cues ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Identity Recognition ◽  
Vocal Responses ◽  
Spectral Cues ◽  
Sexual Recognition

As in many anurans, males of the totally aquatic species, Xenopus laevis , advertise their sexual receptivity using vocalizations. Unusually for anurans, X. laevis females also advertise producing a fertility call that results in courtship duets between partners. Although all X. laevis calls consist of repetitive click trains, male and female calls exhibit sex-specific acoustic features that might convey sexual identity. We tested the significance of the carrier frequency and the temporal pattern of calls using underwater playback experiments in which modified calls were used to evoke vocal responses in males. Since males respond differently to male and female calls, the modification of a key component of sexual identity in calls should change the male's response. We found that a female-like slow call rhythm triggers more vocal activity than a male-like fast rhythm. A call containing both a female-like temporal pattern and a female-like carrier frequency elicits higher levels of courtship display than either feature alone. In contrast, a male-like temporal pattern is sufficient to trigger typical male–male encounter vocalizations regardless of spectral cues. Thus, our evidence supports a role for temporal acoustic cues in sexual identity recognition and for spectral acoustic cues in conveying female attractiveness in X. laevis .

scholarly journals Desbordando el género y el sexo

2017 ◽  
pp. 417
Author(s):  
Claudia Truzzoli
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Identity ◽  
Option Value ◽  
Real Thing ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Clear Separation ◽  
The Real ◽  
Biological Sex ◽  
Rigid Frames ◽  
The Difference

<p><strong>Resumen</strong></p><p>Ni el género ni la sexualidad se dejan encorsetar dentro de unas normas que informan cómo deben ser y actuar hombres y mujeres para ser reconocidos socialmente como normales. Tanto el género como el sexo son susceptibles de desbordamiento de dichos encuadres rígidos, porque tal desbordamiento responde a lo real vivenciado por cualquier hombre o mujer. Las normas son un constructo artificial que no responde a la auténtica identidad genérica y sexual de cada sujeto, que es mucho más compleja que el reduccionismo monolítico que quiere demarcar la diferencia entre masculino y femenino. Dicha separación tan tajante no puede explicar la coexistencia de ambas características en un mismo sujeto ni las pretensiones de los transgéneros de ser considerados con una identidad que desmiente su sexo biológico, ni la angustia de los transexuales convencidos de estar atrapados en un cuerpo equivocado.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Abstract</strong><strong><br /> </strong>Neither gender nor sexuality is allowed to be curtailed within norms that inform how men and women should be and act to be socially recognized as normal. Both gender and sex are susceptible to overflowing of such rigid frames, because such an overflow responds to the real thing experienced by any man or woman. Norms are an artificial construct that does not respond to the authentic generic and sexual identity of each subject, which is much more complex than the monolithic reductionism that wants to demarcate the difference between male and female. 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Gender Dysphoria

2018 ◽  
pp. 551-565
Author(s):  
Giovanni Castellini ◽  
Milena Mancini
Keyword(s):  
Gender Identity ◽  
Sexual Identity ◽  
Gender Dysphoria ◽  
Sense Of Self ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Social Perspective ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Self Identity ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Important Marker

Gender dysphoria (GD) is defined as the distress that may accompany the incongruence between one’s experienced or expressed gender and one’s assigned gender. Gender membership refers to an individual’s sense of self as male or female, and it is a fundamental component of our general identity, providing a sense of biographical continuity. The GD condition highlights the dichotomy and the contradictions of the post-modern society between anatomical body and gender identity. The psycho-social perspective maintains that the sex category assigned at birth is simply a first guess as to what identity we will later assume. Indeed, male and female are not seen as the only possible gender identities, and they need not to be regarded as mutually exclusive. This interpretation suggests that gender identity may be a more important marker of personhood and self-identity than anatomical sexual identity.

Psychiatric and Interpersonal Factors in Infertility

1969 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-36 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. M. M. Mai
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Design ◽  
Sexual Identity ◽  
Clinical Data ◽  
Clinical Studies ◽  
Psychological Factors ◽  
Female Infertility ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Interpersonal Factors ◽  
Aggressive Personality

Various hypotheses regarding the psychopathology of infertility are reviewed. In the female, the immature dependent, and masculine-aggressive personality are said to be associated with infertility. Confusion of sexual identity is considered a factor in the psychogenesis of both male and female infertility. Two carefully designed clinical studies are reviewed and show conflicting results which may be due to a different experimental design. The neuro-endocrine and autonomic mechanisms by which abnormal psychological factors could contribute to infertility are briefly reviewed. The paucity of sound clinical data on both personality and psychophysiological factors is emphasised. The difficulties of experimental design are discussed and some suggestions made as to how these can be overcome.

scholarly journals Parent-child relationships and sexual identity in male and female homosexuals and heterosexuals.

1973 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 120-127 ◽  
Author(s):  
Norman L. Thompson ◽  
David M. Schwartz ◽  
Boyd R. McCandless ◽  
David A. Edwards
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Identity ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Parent Child Relationships ◽  
Parent Child

The Eroticism of Emasculation: Confronting the Baroque Body of the Castrato

2003 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 196-249 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roger Freitas Freitas
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Function ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Early Modern Period ◽  
Middle Ground ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Modern Period ◽  
History Of ◽  
The One ◽  
Historical Accounts ◽  
The Ideal

This study suggests that, against the background of early modern views of sexuality, the castrato appears not as the asexual creature sometimes implied today, but as a super-natural manifestation of a widely-held erotic ideal. Recent work in the history of sexuality has shown the prevalence in the early modern period of the "one-sex" model, in which the distinction between male and female is quantitative (with respect to "vital heat") rather than qualitative. This model provides for a large middle ground, encompassing prepubescent children, castrati, and other unusual figures. And that middle ground, in fact, seems to have been a prime locus of sexual desire: the art, literature, and historical accounts of the period argue that boys especially were often viewed -perhaps by both sexes-as erotic objects. Further evidence suggests that this sexual charge also applied to castrati. The plausibility of such an erotic image is strengthened by investigation into the actual sexual function of these singers, which seems to have fallen somewhere between historical legend and modern skepticism. Finally, a survey of castrato roles in opera, from Monteverdi to Handel, shows how these singers were deployed and suggests that their popularity could not have depended entirely on vocal skills. Instead, I argue that castrati were prized at least in part for their unique physicality, their spectacularly exaggerated embodiment of the ideal lover.

scholarly journals Protein expression reveals a molecular sexual identity of avian primordial germ cells at pre-gonadal stages

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura Soler ◽  
Sabine Alves ◽  
Aurélien Brionne ◽  
Aurore Jacques ◽  
Vanessa Guérin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Genetic Resources ◽  
Sexual Identity ◽  
Cell Fate ◽  
Germ Cells ◽  
Sex Chromosome ◽  
Sex Differentiation ◽  
Primordial Germ Cells ◽  
Specific Cell ◽  
Male And Female

AbstractIn poultry, in vitro propagated primordial germ cells (PGCs) represent an important tool for the cryopreservation of avian genetic resources. However, several studies have highlighted sexual differences exhibited by PGCs during in vitro propagation, which may compromise their reproductive capacities. To understand this phenomenon, we compared the proteome of pregonadal migratory male (ZZ) and female (ZW) chicken PGCs propagated in vitro by quantitative proteomic analysis using a GeLC-MS/MS strategy. Many proteins were found to be differentially abundant in chicken male and female PGCs indicating their early sexual identity. Many of the proteins more highly expressed in male PGCs were encoded by genes localised to the Z sex chromosome. This suggests that the known lack of dosage compensation of the transcription of Z-linked genes between sexes persists at the protein level in PGCs, and that this may be a key factor of their autonomous sex differentiation. We also found that globally, protein differences do not closely correlate with transcript differences indicating a selective translational mechanism in PGCs. Male and female PGC expressed protein sets were associated with differential biological processes and contained proteins known to be biologically relevant for male and female germ cell development, respectively. We also discovered that female PGCs have a higher capacity to uptake proteins from the cell culture medium than male PGCs. This study presents the first evidence of an early predetermined sex specific cell fate of chicken PGCs and their sexual molecular specificities which will enable the development of more precise sex-specific in vitro culture conditions for the preservation of avian genetic resources.

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