scholarly journals (Un)gendering the homoerotic body: Imagining subjects in boys' love and yaoi

2010 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark McHarry
Keyword(s):  
Michel Foucault ◽  
Julia Kristeva ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
Literary Forms ◽  
Male Subjects ◽  
Erotic Desire

Language is a condition for a subject's formation, and identity is a factor in a subject's understanding of self. The Japanese-derived literary forms boys' love and yaoi portray male subjects as valorizing and acting on same-sex erotic desire, yet with little or no sense of possessing a same-sex desiring identity. Following Elizabeth Grosz, Julia Kristeva, and Michel Foucault, a reading is performed of a Western yaoi fan fic to explore how subjects in yaoi and boys' love enter into language, and hence subjectivity.

scholarly journals Exclusive language: The tool to empower and create identity

2016 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ananda Geyser-Fouche
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
Michel Foucault ◽  
Jacques Derrida ◽  
Julia Kristeva ◽  
South African Context ◽  
Literary Theories ◽  
African Context ◽  
Qumran Community ◽  
Selection Of ◽  
The Way

This article used some postmodern literary theories of philosophers such as Jean-Fran�ois Lyotard, Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida and Julia Kristeva to scrutinise a selection of texts from the post-exilic period with regard to the exclusive language employed in these texts. Lyotard�s insights relate to and complement Foucault�s concept of �counter-memory�. Foucault also focuses on the network of discursive powers that operate behind texts and reproduce them, arguing that it is important to have a look from behind so as to see which voices were silenced by the specific powers behind texts. The author briefly looked at different post-exilic texts within identity-finding contexts, focusing especially on Chronicles and a few Qumran texts, to examine the way in which they used language to create identity and to empower the community in their different contexts. It is generally accepted that both the author(s) of 1 & 2 Chronicles and the Qumran community used texts selectively, with their own nuances, omissions and additions. This study scrutinised the way the author(s) of Chronicles and the Qumran community used documents selectively, focusing on the way in which they used exclusive language. It is clear that all communities used such language in certain circumstances to strengthen a certain group�s identity, to empower them and to legitimise this group�s conduct, behaviour and claims � and thereby exclude other groups.Intradisciplinary and/or interdisciplinary implications: Based on postmodern literary theories, this article compares the exclusive language used in Chronicles and in the texts of the Qumran community, pointing to the practice of creating identity and empowering through discourse. In conclusion, the article reflects on what is necessary in a South African context, post-1994, to be a truly democratic country.Keywords: Exclusive language; inclusive; Jean-Fran�ois Lyotard, Michel Foucault, Pierre Bourdieu; Derrida; Qumran Chronicles

Eye Contact, Facial Expression, Sex, and the Violation of Personal Space

1978 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 579-584 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeff Hughes ◽  
Morton Goldman
Keyword(s):  
Facial Expression ◽  
Eye Contact ◽  
Personal Space ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Male Subjects ◽  
Female Confederate ◽  
Female Subjects

Two experiments carried out in a public elevator examined how variations in eye contact, facial expression, sex of subject and of experimental confederate affected the violation of personal space. The first experiment “forced” subjects (79 females and 105 males) to violate the personal space of male of female confederates who were either directing their gazes at the subjects or were avoiding eye contact by having their backs to entering passengers. In the first condition the confederates were both male while in the second condition both confederates were female. For male subjects, as eye contact increased from male and female confederates, violations of personal space decreased. Male subjects preferred to violate the personal space of the confederates who had their backs to them, regardless of the sex of the confederates. Female and male subjects responded similarly when the confederates were males. However, when the confederates were females, female subjects preferred to violate the space of the female confederate who gazed at them rather than the female confederate who had her back to them. In the second experiment the subjects (86 females and 90 males) were again “forced” to violate the personal space of two confederates of the same sex. In each of two conditions one of the confederates avoided gazing at entering subjects but the second confederate smiled while gazing directly at the entering subjects. Male subjects again preferred to violate the personal space of the confederate whose back was to them, regardless of the confederate's sex. Female subjects, however, preferred to violate the personal space of confederates who smiled while gazing directly at the entering subjects. This occurred for both male and female confederates.

scholarly journals Attitudes towards Same-Sex Marriage and Parenting: Association with Sexism, Homophobia and Internalized Sexual Stigma

2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 56-56
Author(s):  
F. Aversa ◽  
◽  
F. Tripodi ◽  
F. M. Nimbi ◽  
R. Baiocco ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Ambivalent Sexism ◽  
Demographic Information ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
Same Sex Marriage ◽  
Sexual Stigma ◽  
Positive Correlations ◽  
Lgbt People ◽  
Male Subjects ◽  
Associated Variables ◽  
Internalized Sexual Stigma

Objective: Several researches investigated the attitudes of heterosexuals and LGBT people towards marriage and parenting of lesbians and gays. The objective of the present study is to explore the correlation between these attitudes and levels of sexism, social homophobia and internalized sexual stigma. Design and Method: The participants were 826 (534 F, 292 M), aged between 17 and 70. 59,8% defined him/her-self as “exclusively heterosexual”, 29,2% as “exclusively homosexual” and 11% as “bisexual”. The following tests have been administered: Questionnaire on socio-demographic Information, Ambivalent Sexism Inventory; Measure of Internalized Sexual Stigma for Lesbians and Gays; Modern Homophobia Scale, The Katuzny Same-sex Marriage Scale; D’Amore and Green Same-sex Parenting Scale. Results: Positive correlations have been found between: sexism and homophobia (r = .378; p < .01) and sexism and internalized sexual stigma (r = .320; p < .01). Male subjects obtained higher scores in sexism (F(1,559) = 15,555; p < .01) and homophobia (F(1,559) = 44,977; p < .01). Heterosexuals were significantly less favorable regarding gay and lesbian marriage (F(1,821) = 96,936; p < .05) and parenthood (F(1,821) = 84,260; p < .05) compared to the non-heterosexuals. Heterosexual males were the most unfavorable towards parenting (F(1,821) = 4,786; p < .05). Conclusions: The results offer a contribution to scientific research which still has significant gaps regarding the attitude-associated variables towards marriage and parenting of people of the same gender. Sexual education at schools and clinic supervision interventions should take these evidences into account.

scholarly journals Od polityki i teorii do literatury. Wokół „Théorie d'ensemble" grupy Tel Quel

2007 ◽  
pp. 105-117
Author(s):  
Adam Dziadek
Keyword(s):  
Michel Foucault ◽  
Literary Theory ◽  
Jacques Derrida ◽  
Julia Kristeva ◽  
Roland Barthes ◽  
Tel Quel ◽  
The Way

This text aims at a description of the famous manifesto published by the group Tel Quel in France in 1968. The author gives a short analysis of chosen texts by Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida, Roland Barthes and particularly Julia Kristeva. The analysis shows important links between politics and literary theory of the Tel Quel. It also shows the way that politics and theory (based on such intertexts as Marx, Freud and Lacan) influenced new notion of the text, of the intertextuality and the others.

Norms and Normalization

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dean Spade ◽  
Craig Willse
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Population Dynamics ◽  
Michel Foucault ◽  
Critical Race ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
Same Sex Marriage ◽  
Feminist Analysis ◽  
Self Reflection ◽  
Prison Abolition

The following chapter charts critical encounters with norms and normalization in feminist analysis and praxis. We pay particular attention to how anticapitalist, critical race, and decolonial feminist methodologies interrogate norm production and maintenance across a range of social, cultural, and economic heteropatriarchal formations. Drawing from the work of Michel Foucault, we consider norms and normativity in terms of both disciplinary subjection of individuals and their bodies and minds as well as biopolitical regulation of population dynamics. Feminist and queer critiques of same-sex marriage offers a case study of how critiques of norms and normalization have unfolded. Finally, we reflect on work of contemporary social movements, especially antiviolence and prison abolition, to see how critique of heteropatriarchal norms both animates such work and provides an opportunity for critical self-reflection of our own political formations.

scholarly journals Cuerpo en fuga, una imagen que se ausenta: revisando tres poemarios de Dulce María Loynaz

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. e45110
Author(s):  
Humberto López Cruz
Keyword(s):  
Michel Foucault ◽  
Julia Kristeva ◽  
Dulce Maria Loynaz

Este trabajo examina tres poemarios de Dulce María Loynaz, Versos, 1920-1938 (1938), Juegos de agua (1947) y Poemas sin nombre (1953) para pensar en una posible vigencia corporal y ver cómo hay poemas de Loynaz que se nutren de lo opuesto; o sea, una ausencia del cuerpo. La hablante lírica hace suya la idea para esbozar imágenes de cuerpos que tienen, como característica repetitiva, la referida ausencia corpórea. Como zócalo crítico, se sopesará una de las múltiples observaciones formuladas por Michel Foucault sobre el tema, con lo propuesto por Julia Kristeva acerca del dialecto resultante dentro de los límites textuales, tanto de significados como de significantes, y el establecimiento de un ritmo dentro de este límite. Estas ideas apoyan un análisis que intenta aproximarse a algunas composiciones de la poeta cubana.

A Maqāma on Same-Sex Marriage in the Thirteenth Century

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-27
Author(s):  
Maurice Pomerantz
Keyword(s):  
Thirteenth Century ◽  
English Translation ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
Same Sex Marriage ◽  
Literary Forms ◽  
History Of ◽  
Love Letter ◽  
Editio Princeps

Abstract This article provides an editio princeps and English translation of al-Maqāma al-Hītiyya al-Šīrāziyya by al-Šābb al-Ẓarīf al-Tilimsānī (d. 688/1289) preserved in Berlin MS Wetzstein 1847. The maqāma describes a romantic liaison conducted between an older Mamluk and a younger boy. The analysis considers the various literary forms deployed by the author in the course of the maqāma, such as: an erotic epigram, a love letter, mujūn verse, and a marriage ḫuṭba. The conclusion of the article explores what this work reveals about the history of the maqāma form, language, and truth.

Introduction

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Per Faxneld
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Michel Foucault ◽  
Consumer Culture ◽  
Great Majority ◽  
Julia Kristeva ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
World War ◽  
Time Period ◽  
Key Terms

Chapter 1 presents the purpose of the study: to map, contextualize, and discuss the discourse of more or less explicit Satanic feminism as it is conveyed in a number of esoteric works, literary texts, autobiographies, scholarly books, political and polemical publications, newspaper reviews, editorials and articles, early works of cinema, paintings, sculptures, and even artefacts of consumer culture such as jewellery. The time period under scrutiny stretches from 1772 to the years before World War II. The great majority of sources, however, belong to the period ca. 1880–1910. Theoretical points of departure are explained, drawing on Michel Foucault, Julia Kristeva, and Bruce Lincoln. In this chapter, key terms like counter-discourse, counter-myth, esotericism, occultism, and Satanism are also defined.

scholarly journals Las máscaras de la perversidad en tres cuentos de Edgar Allan Poe. Teatralización de la monstruosidad moral

Perseitas ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claudia María Maya Franco ◽  
Hilderman Cardona Rodas
Keyword(s):  
Michel Foucault ◽  
Gilles Deleuze ◽  
Edgar Allan Poe ◽  
Julia Kristeva

Este artículo analiza tres cuentos de Edgar Allan Poe (El demonio de la perversidad, El gato negro y El corazón delator). Estos cuentos tienen en común el tema de la perversidad hacia cuya elucidación pretendemos avanzar desde la premisa deleuziana según la cual es preciso volver al espacio literario donde fueron nombradas las perversidades, con el fin de obtener algunas claves de comprensión sobre las causas y consecuencias de la perversidad, así como sobre la naturaleza de estos personajes literarios que, en los tres cuentos citados, se autodefinen como víctimas de esta condición que se encarna en los seres humanos bajo la forma de un demonio. Nos acompañarán en este recorrido los aportes teóricos de Julia Kristeva, Gilles Deleuze, Michel Foucault, François Delaporte y Claude-Olivier Doron.

The Opposite of Gay: Nature, Creation, and Queerish Ex-Gay Experiments

2008 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 8-30 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lynne Gerber
Keyword(s):  
Judith Butler ◽  
Church Community ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
Full Inclusion ◽  
Gender Essentialism ◽  
Cultural Strategies ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Church ◽  
Erotic Desire

Ex-gay ministries train people who are attracted to members of the same sex in gender and religious conventions that such ministries hope will effect changes in erotic desire. However, they reject efforts at denial and repression in favor of frank acknowledgment of homosexual desire, and advocate for the full inclusion of those who struggle with that desire in the church community. In carving out this space between rejection and acceptance of homosexuality, they utilize discursive and cultural strategies that resemble the gender indeterminacy and gender play celebrated by queer theorists——who have very different socio-political aims. Using the work of queer theorist Judith Butler, this paper looks at the practice of ex-gay ministries, arguing that by grounding gender essentialism in creation rather than nature, these ministries are able to engage in and profit from strategies I call "queerish"——ones that are similar to queer strategies in certain conceptual moves, yet quite distinct in normative ends.

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