Normalise Me! Sexual and Gender Identity in Sexological, Criminological, and Feminist Discourses on Pornography
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Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Normalise Me! Sexual and Gender Identity in Sexological, Criminological, and Feminist Discourses on Pornography
Original language description
To a large extent, the regulatory discourses of sexology and criminology control our understandings of sexual as well as gender identity. By pathologising some identities, they highlight the normal and acceptable, thus reproducing the heteronormative status quo. In this text I analyse Czech sexological and criminological writing on the topic of pornography, as well as feminist anti-pornography arguments, as articulated both in the United States and contemporary Europe. I argue that not only do sexologyand criminology produce normalising accounts of gender and sexuality, but that surprising congruences arise between these disciplines and feminist anti-pornography discourse. These discourses share a perception of gender as a binary and stable category and sexuality as essentially heterosexual. Although this is perhaps to be expected from confining discourses such as sexology and criminology, it remains objectionable and proves especially unwelcome in progressive social powers such as fe
Czech name
Znormalizuj mě! Sexuální a genderová identita v sexuologickém, kriminologickém a feministickém diskursu o pornografii
Czech description
Stať analyzuje způsoby, kterými regulační diskurzy sexuologie a kriminologie kontrolují pojetí genderu a sexuality.
Classification
Type
C - Chapter in a specialist book
CEP classification
AO - Sociology, demography
OECD FORD branch
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Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GP403%2F08%2FP569" target="_blank" >GP403/08/P569: GENDER, SEXUALITY, AND PERFORMATIVITY IN DISCOURSES ON PORNOGRAPHY AS A SOCIAL REPRESENTATION OF SEX</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2008
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Book/collection name
Negotiating Sexual Idioms: Image, Text, Performance
ISBN
978-90-420-2491-5
Number of pages of the result
11
Pages from-to
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Number of pages of the book
222
Publisher name
Rodopi Press
Place of publication
Amsterdam/New York
UT code for WoS chapter
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