The sites/citing of female sexuality: An Irigarayan reading ofSex positive

Plessis, Rory du

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“…The analysis was informed by feminist theories of sexuality that examine the ways in which texts are associated with male-centred versions of sexual pleasure. 2 , 3 , 8 , 15 However, this study makes no claim that this is the only possible reading of the articles in Intimacy . A fundamental feature of discourse analysis is that it acknowledges that there will always be the prospect of generating more appropriate or convincing interpretations.…”

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confidence: 85%

“…Sex advice literature has been critiqued for denying the multiplicity of female sexuality – in particular, in reducing the female erogenous zones to only the vagina so as to comply with the coital imperative. 15 However, in Intimacy a plethora of articles explore the multiple erogenous zones of a women's body – all of which have orgasmic potential. A number of these articles are especially written for men with a view to enabling them to sexually please their wives.…”

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confidence: 99%

“… 2 This is not just a peripheral idiosyncrasy but is argued to be the mainstay of the scientific basis of sexology which, from the early and late twentieth century, constructed a model of sexuality that purported to be both objective and scientific but, in fact, reflected and promoted the interests of patriarchy. 3 , 15 In other words, the model of sexuality provided by scientific texts reflects patriarchal values by defining sex in male terms and, consequently, it controls and restricts women to specific expressions of sexuality. 15 …”

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“… 3 , 15 In other words, the model of sexuality provided by scientific texts reflects patriarchal values by defining sex in male terms and, consequently, it controls and restricts women to specific expressions of sexuality. 15 …”

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A discourse analysis of male sexuality in the magazine Intimacy

Plessis

2015

Afr. j. prim. health care fam. med.

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BackgroundThe World Health Organization's publication, Developing sexual health programmes, states that the media is an important source of information about sexuality. Although the media can promote awareness of sexual health issues, it also acts as a vehicle for defining and regulating sex norms. In other words, the standards of ‘normal’ sex are in part defined by the media. Accordingly, it has become imperative to analyse the media's construction of sexual norms in order to reveal how they are related to specific ideological views. For the purposes of this study, the focus will be limited to analysing the South African publication Intimacy.AimThe study aims to reveal how the sex advice articles written in Intimacy for women in regard to their male partner's sexuality reflect patriarchal and phallocentric ideologies.MethodA discourse analysis of the sex advice articles in the magazine Intimacy was conducted. It was informed by feminist theories of sexuality that seek to examine the ways in which texts are associated with male-centred versions of sexual pleasure.ResultsThe discourse analysis identified a number of key themes regarding male sexuality. These include: (1) biological accounts of male sexuality; (2) phallocentric scripting of the sex act; and (3) the melodramatic penis.ConclusionConstructions of male sexuality require the inclusion of alternative modes of male erotic pleasure. This requires texts that encourage men to explore and also to experiment with pleasurable feelings associated with non-genital erogenous zones of the body.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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A discourse analysis of male sexuality in the magazine Intimacy

Plessis

2015

Afr. j. prim. health care fam. med.

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“…This is not unproblematic, as feminist theorists would point out that it privileges male orgasm to the detriment of other forms of erotic pleasure (Koedt 1973, McFadden 2003, du Plessis 2010. Moreover, the obsession with the penis and its size may be problematic in a context like South Africa, where the 'preservation of patriarchal power may have many culturally specific forms, but ultimately violence against women -or the threat thereof -is the prevailing form of social control' (Artz 2009: 186).…”

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The everyday life of sexual politics: A feminist critical discourse analysis of herbalist pamphlets in Johannesburg

Edwards

Milani

2014

Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies

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This article investigates a corpus of herbalist pamphlets -fairly common, everyday texts found in (South) African cities -which promote the services of traditional healers and promise solutions to a plethora of ailments and life problems. The article's multi-pronged approach brings feminist critical discourse analysis (FCDA), corpus linguistics (CS) and multimodal critical discourse studies (MCDS) into dialogue with each other. Encompassing both quantitative and qualitative components, this eclectic framework illustrates the ways in which dominant gendered discourses reproduce a patriarchal and heteronormative order by positioning men and women differently. This dominant form of gendered representation, however, co-exists with more resistant discourses which positively thematise same-sex desire. Essentially, the article demonstrates that herbalist pamphlets are key sites of 'entanglement' (Nuttall 2009) where complex identity nexuses of gender, sexuality, race, age and culture intersect and compete with each other within the larger regime of representation in South Africa.

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The sites/citing of female sexuality: An Irigarayan reading ofSex positive

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A discourse analysis of male sexuality in the magazine <I>Intimacy</I>

A discourse analysis of male sexuality in the magazine <I>Intimacy</I>

The everyday life of sexual politics: A feminist critical discourse analysis of herbalist pamphlets in Johannesburg

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