The Categories Themselves

Valentine, David

doi:10.1215/10642684-10-2-215

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“…But although sex and gender are related, they are not the same thing, and they form the basis of two distinct arenas of social practice." More recently, Valentine (2004) argued that distinctions between sexuality and gender, while politically useful, do a disservice to the many people who experience sexual desire, social gender, and bodily sex as aligned. He proposed treating the relationship between sexuality and gender as an empirical question, with distinctive answers in different social/historical locations.…”

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Gendered Sexuality over the Life Course: A Conceptual Framework

Carpenter

2010

Sociological Perspectives

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Despite increasing interest in gendered sexuality over the life course, a comprehensive conceptual model, applicable to all aspects of sexual life and incorporating recent developments in life course sociology, feminist theory, and sexuality studies, has yet to be elaborated. The model presented here posits that sexual beliefs and behaviors result from individuals' lifelong accumulation of advantageous and disadvantageous experiences, and adoption/rejection of sexual scripts, within socio-historical contexts. Women and men follow distinctive sexual trajectories insofar as they accrue gender-specific experiences and scripts and as their sexuality and gender trajectories intertwine. Empirical examples include virginity loss and involuntary celibacy, (de)coupling, and chronic illness/disability. The proposed framework helps explain the coexistence of differences and similarities among individuals and cohorts and holds particular promise for studying lifelong aspects of sexuality like agency and interest. It also suggests improvements on interactionist theory, conventional life course models, and the sexual scripting approach.

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Section: The Relationship Between Gender and Sexualitymentioning

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Gendered Sexuality over the Life Course: A Conceptual Framework

Carpenter

2010

Sociological Perspectives

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“…Although analytically distinct (Rubin 1984), sexuality and gender are intimately interrelated, mutually constructed in distinctive ways in specific social and historical locations (Valentine 2004). Pascoe (2007), for instance, has shown how adolescent boys simultaneously construct masculinity and (typically hetero)sexuality at individual, interactional, and institutional levels.…”

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Like a Virgin…Again?: Secondary Virginity as an Ongoing Gendered Social Construction

Carpenter

2010

Sexuality & Culture

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Secondary virginity-a sexually-initiated person's deliberate decision to refrain from intimate encounters for a set period of time and to refer to that decision as a kind of virginity (rather than ''mere'' abstinence)-has largely eluded sociological scrutiny, despite its increasing popularity as a concept and practice among American youth. This study explores beliefs and experiences regarding secondary virginity, drawing on qualitative interviews with 61 socially diverse women and men, of whom four were avowed secondary virgins, five likened their experiences to a second virginity/virginity loss, and 16 had phenomenologically similar experiences which they did not frame in terms of virginity. Respondents who endorsed the concept of secondary virginity were disproportionately White conservative Christian women born after 1972. Secondary virginity reveals the social construction of gendered sexuality and the heterosexual imaginary as it reinforces privilege along gender, racial, religious, and sexual dimensions.

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“…De acuerdo con David Valentine (2004), las categorías de género comúnmente proponen definiciones homogéneas y estereotípicas de los sujetos sociales que tienden a encubrir la diversidad de interpretaciones que fluyen a través del mundo so- cial. Al mismo tiempo, otros autores como Niko Besnier plantean la importancia de entender el género como un proceso de subjetividades en construcción en lugar de una estructura de relaciones pre-establecidas (Besnier 2002).…”

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“…En este horizonte de discusión y debate teórico, la universalización de la separación analítica entre el género y el sexo comenzó a ser discutida (Davies 2010;Sinnott 2010;Yue 2011). Estos movimientos críticos coincidieron con la aparición de las teorías queer, que buscaron deconstruir los discursos heteronormativos a través de la manifestación de prácticas e identidades sexuales históricamente invisibilizadas por medio de la construcción social de la sexualidad y sus cambios a través de la historia, demostrando que la distinción entre sexo y género había sido aceptada unilateralmente sin tomar en cuenta particularidades de carácter socio-históricas (Butler 1999;Sinnott 2010;Valentine 2004).…”

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Redefiniendo las identidades <em>waria</em> en la Indonesia contemporánea

Martínez

2017

Rev. Dialectol. Trad. Popul.

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RESUMENEl análisis de identidades de género no hegemónicas en el Sur Global ha propiciado un replanteamiento de los enfoques y paradigmas tradicionales. Hoy en día, el constante flujo a nivel global de imágenes y generalidades en torno a la belleza y el sexo se mezcla e interactúa junto a la diseminación de ideologías de corte individualista, concibiendo constructos de género de gran variabilidad, permeabilidad y porosidad. Este artículo busca discutir los modelos clásicos empleados para conceptualizar a las waria (travestís femeninos) de Indonesia y a su vez repensar la construcción del término a partir de un análisis de los recientes cambios acontecidos en el país. Dicho replanteamiento está ligado a la necesidad de acuñar enfoques alternativos que aborden la mutabilidad de las realidades de género en un mundo cada vez más globalizado.Palabras clave: Indonesia; Identidad; Waria; Globalización del género. SUMMARYThe analysis of non-hegemonic gender expressions in the Global South have trespassed classical gender approaches limitations. The continuous flow of Western images and notions concerning beauty and sex hybridize and interact with the dissemination of individualistic ideologies, generating a gender milieu characterized by high variability, permeability and porosity. This paper aims to discuss the classical paradigms used to describe waria (male-to-female transvestites) in Indonesia and re-think the construction of the term using the recent changes in the country as a reference point. This active reflection leads to the necessity of employing alternative approaches to describe hybrid gender realities in a globalized world.

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The Categories Themselves

Cited by 58 publications

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Gendered Sexuality over the Life Course: A Conceptual Framework

Gendered Sexuality over the Life Course: A Conceptual Framework

Like a Virgin…Again?: Secondary Virginity as an Ongoing Gendered Social Construction

Redefiniendo las identidades <em>waria</em> en la Indonesia contemporánea

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