Revista de Estudios de Género, La Ventana E-ISSN: 2448-7724, 1997
María Gutiérrez abre la sección7\VünC€S de trabajo con su artículo "Intersticios de la función pa... more María Gutiérrez abre la sección7\VünC€S de trabajo con su artículo "Intersticios de la función paterna y goce femenino", mediante el cual reflexiona sobre la "cuestión del padre, en tanto función, no sólo fundante del sujeto, sino también del orden sexual, del sexo en su dimensión humana". Virginia Enciso, por su parte, presenta el artículo "Género y trabajo: La enfermería", como primer resultado de su investigación "La influencia de las relaciones de género en la calidad de vida de las enfermeras". El cuerpo y la sexualidad femenina es objeto de dos artículos más de esta sección: el primero es un escrito de Guadalupe Meza Lavaniegos: "Sexualidad y medicalización en la prohibición del aborto" y. el segundo, "Sexualidad femenina y enfermedades de transmisión sexual en la región fronteriza de Chiapas", es una investigación realizada por
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ASPECTS OF SOCIALIZATION FOR AGGRESSION IN SAMBIA RITUAL AND WARFARE ... Selected aspects of aggr... more ASPECTS OF SOCIALIZATION FOR AGGRESSION IN SAMBIA RITUAL AND WARFARE ... Selected aspects of aggression are described among the Sambia of the Eastern Highlands, ... Papua New Guinea. Two types of aggressive behavior are ...
This collection of papers considers the meaning and impact of homophobia and anti-gay violence in... more This collection of papers considers the meaning and impact of homophobia and anti-gay violence in the context of sexual culture and health in contemporary societies, both Western and non-Western. When first coined in the early 1970s, the term ‘homophobia’ was thought to describe a mental disorder or, at least, a condition relating to an irrational fear of homosexuality or homosexual persons. As such, the description clearly conflated both individual and social diVerences and rapidly made its way into popular usage, in spite of the poor analogy to other ‘phobias’. As Greg Herek (1994) has argued elsewhere, the concept of homophobia has now come to refer to a wide and sometimes confusing variety of issues, such as personal fear and irrationality, which go far beyond the original definition and conceptualization. Obviously, the phenomenon to which the concept pertains involves culture and meaning systems, politics and policies, institutions and societal customs, discriminatory practices and violence, individual and collective behaviours, and the range of emotions and intentions that qualify interpersonal conduct. The implications of these issues for policy is large and urgent, as is well argued by Ryan and Rivers in their comparative study of the USA and UK in this collection. Its origins are often thought to be found in religious objections to homosexual behaviour, which foster processes of exclusion, the creation of sexual Otherness, and the denial of sexual citizenship to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) people. Although believed to be rooted in both cultural and individual conditions and processes with their own coherence and governed by their own rules, homophobia is also believed by many scholars to be a concept loaded with contradictions—the ilk of racism and sexism. Indeed, as some would claim it is a weapon of sexism and, like heterosexism, another way to
Abstract: This article reviews some of the factors that have created and reproduced intellectual,... more Abstract: This article reviews some of the factors that have created and reproduced intellectual, historical, political, and disciplinary barriers to understanding the contribution of social oppression as a force in the ...
Selected aspects of the "essentialist" critiques and reviews in Bisexual and Ho... more Selected aspects of the "essentialist" critiques and reviews in Bisexual and Homosexual Identities: Critical Theoretical Issues (De Cecco & Shively, eds., 1983/1984) of the idea of the bisexual identity are examined from the standpoint of their cross-cultural significance. Examples from recent studies in Melanesia are used to highlight possible areas of exploration for future research in homosexuality and bisexuality. The idea of fluidity of sexual identity is examined, including the associated notion of sexual desire.
The American Anthropological Association is considering coordinated research action on AIDS follo... more The American Anthropological Association is considering coordinated research action on AIDS following discussion at the last Annual Meeting in Philadelphia. In Britain, the AIDS Virus and Education Research Trust has awarded Sophie ...
Journal of Gay and Lesbian Social Services, Feb 26, 1999
Jeff A. Beeler and Todd W. Rawls are doctoral students in the Committee on Human Development at t... more Jeff A. Beeler and Todd W. Rawls are doctoral students in the Committee on Human Development at the University of Chicago. Mr. Beeler received his MSW at Jane Addams School of Social Work at the University of Illinois at Chicago and ...
Marriage is a fundamental institution in American culture that provides a social structure of adv... more Marriage is a fundamental institution in American culture that provides a social structure of advantages for wedded couples. Unlike heterosexual citizens in the United States, lesbians and gay men are denied the tangible and intangible benefits of marriage, a deprivation that restricts their citizenship and hinders their mental health and well-being. While research findings confirm the psychosocial capacity of gay men and lesbians to form committed relationships and to parent successfully, marriage denial continues to perpetuate an opportunity structure that disenfranchises gay men and lesbians in the sociocultural, legal, economic, and political aspects of their lives. This article reviews the particular impact of marriage denial on the mental health and well-being of gay men and lesbians and provides an analysis of the historical and cultural factors present in the United States that serve to maintain denial of marriage as an act of discrimination against gay men and lesbians.
This paper examines the historical, cultural, and biographical context of the work of the late UC... more This paper examines the historical, cultural, and biographical context of the work of the late UCLA psychoanalytic psychiatrist Robert J. Stoller, as narrated through the voice of anthropologist Gilbert Herdt, who worked with Stoller over a number of years as a postdoctoral fellow and then a junior colleague. The epistemological and professional goals of Stoller in opening up the field of psychoanalysis to the study of sexual excitement, human sexual variation, a radical revision of homosexuality dynamically, and especially the acceptance of divergent LGBT orientations is examined in the professional development and work of Stoller in the Department of Psychiatry at UCLA in the 1950s–1980s. The final section of the article examines the fieldwork collaboration of Stoller and Herdt in the context of Herdt's Papua New Guinea field site among the Sambia people, with whom he has been working since 1974. Stoller was instrumental not only in supporting LGBT analytic candidates, but in encouraging a more tolerant face-to-face inclusive attitude in research, education, mentoring, and the general Weltanschauung of psychiatry.
3 Selfhood and discourse in Sambia dream sharing GILBERT HERDT Department of Behavioral Sciences,... more 3 Selfhood and discourse in Sambia dream sharing GILBERT HERDT Department of Behavioral Sciences, University of Chicago Dreams are among the most complex of all human communications. Any serious student of dreams knows this and the ...
GILBE RT HERDT is director ofthe Human Sexuality Studies program and professor ofhuman sexuality ... more GILBE RT HERDT is director ofthe Human Sexuality Studies program and professor ofhuman sexuality and anthropology at San Fancisco State University. He is the author or editor ofmany books, including Guardians ofthe Flutes: Idioms ...
University of California Press eBooks, Apr 28, 2023
4 Gilbert H. Herdt Semen Transactions in Sambia Culture INTRODUCTION The theme of this study, sem... more 4 Gilbert H. Herdt Semen Transactions in Sambia Culture INTRODUCTION The theme of this study, semen transactions, may appear esoteric, not to mention vulgar: certainly the question of who gives and receives sperm is not one that much ...
This article examines the transformation of sexual meanings, attitudes, norms, and practices surr... more This article examines the transformation of sexual meanings, attitudes, norms, and practices surrounding depletion and pollution across decades among the Sambia of Papua New Guinea. In the premodern village, all sexual intercourse, whether with boy-initiates or women, was ritualized and ultimately controlled by the men's secret society. Intimate consumption refers traditionally to a symbolic complex of beliefs, concepts, emotions, and ritual experiences involving sexuality, bodily health, social relationships, and gendered politics. But it also covers sexual anxieties corresponding to the transfer and loss of bodily fluids via the perceived depletion and pollution of self and body. For adult men, the sense of intimate consumption requires repeated substance replenishment and purification. Intimate consumption made oral and vaginal sex highly rule-bound, taboo laden, and intensely regulated in terms of the meaning, scope, duration, and intended goals of sexual exchange. Pacification, colonization, out-migration, Seventh Day Adventist (SDA) Christianity, and primary schooling in the Sambia Valley over a period of decades instigated social transformations that challenged and wore down this system of sexual regulation. Thus, the transition from ritual to non-ritual practices, i.e., more individualistic sexual relationships, highlight narratives of change in the Sambia sexuality. With the demise of ritual initiation in the 1980s and 1990s, and the appearance of HIV and SikAids in the Sambia Valley, explicit ritual sexual techniques were no longer socialized. Modernity (in the sense of a set of policies, attitudes, and rules introduced through institutions such as the government community school) and SDA church sociality influenced both the pace and form of this sexual transformation. Among the greatest changes was the expansion of female agency and sexual autonomy, and personal decision-making vis-à-vis especially marriage and also romance, courtship, and sex. Notably, oral sex, once universal and mandatory, largely disappeared from Sambia intimate relations. Today, spousal intimacy reveals a different set of more 'modern' meanings and behaviors compared to two generations ago, e.g., more mutualistic and companionate. Intimate consumption remains a worry for certain Sambia young men and women today however, influenced in part by the rise of the HIV pandemic, mobility, and the absence of normative narratives of sexuality in villages and town settlements. This creates public spaces wherein new sexual subjects have emerged in the villages and urban settlements within the Sambia Valley and in settlements throughout PNG.
Revista de Estudios de Género, La Ventana E-ISSN: 2448-7724, 1997
María Gutiérrez abre la sección7\VünC€S de trabajo con su artículo "Intersticios de la función pa... more María Gutiérrez abre la sección7\VünC€S de trabajo con su artículo "Intersticios de la función paterna y goce femenino", mediante el cual reflexiona sobre la "cuestión del padre, en tanto función, no sólo fundante del sujeto, sino también del orden sexual, del sexo en su dimensión humana". Virginia Enciso, por su parte, presenta el artículo "Género y trabajo: La enfermería", como primer resultado de su investigación "La influencia de las relaciones de género en la calidad de vida de las enfermeras". El cuerpo y la sexualidad femenina es objeto de dos artículos más de esta sección: el primero es un escrito de Guadalupe Meza Lavaniegos: "Sexualidad y medicalización en la prohibición del aborto" y. el segundo, "Sexualidad femenina y enfermedades de transmisión sexual en la región fronteriza de Chiapas", es una investigación realizada por
Click here if your download doesn"t start automatically Critical Terms for the Study of Gender Fr... more Click here if your download doesn"t start automatically Critical Terms for the Study of Gender Free PDF d0wnl0ad, audio books, books to read, good books to read, cheap books, good books, online books, books online, book reviews epub, read books online, books to read online, online library, greatbooks to read, PDF best books to read, top books to read Critical Terms for the Study of Gender books to read online.
ASPECTS OF SOCIALIZATION FOR AGGRESSION IN SAMBIA RITUAL AND WARFARE ... Selected aspects of aggr... more ASPECTS OF SOCIALIZATION FOR AGGRESSION IN SAMBIA RITUAL AND WARFARE ... Selected aspects of aggression are described among the Sambia of the Eastern Highlands, ... Papua New Guinea. Two types of aggressive behavior are ...
This collection of papers considers the meaning and impact of homophobia and anti-gay violence in... more This collection of papers considers the meaning and impact of homophobia and anti-gay violence in the context of sexual culture and health in contemporary societies, both Western and non-Western. When first coined in the early 1970s, the term ‘homophobia’ was thought to describe a mental disorder or, at least, a condition relating to an irrational fear of homosexuality or homosexual persons. As such, the description clearly conflated both individual and social diVerences and rapidly made its way into popular usage, in spite of the poor analogy to other ‘phobias’. As Greg Herek (1994) has argued elsewhere, the concept of homophobia has now come to refer to a wide and sometimes confusing variety of issues, such as personal fear and irrationality, which go far beyond the original definition and conceptualization. Obviously, the phenomenon to which the concept pertains involves culture and meaning systems, politics and policies, institutions and societal customs, discriminatory practices and violence, individual and collective behaviours, and the range of emotions and intentions that qualify interpersonal conduct. The implications of these issues for policy is large and urgent, as is well argued by Ryan and Rivers in their comparative study of the USA and UK in this collection. Its origins are often thought to be found in religious objections to homosexual behaviour, which foster processes of exclusion, the creation of sexual Otherness, and the denial of sexual citizenship to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) people. Although believed to be rooted in both cultural and individual conditions and processes with their own coherence and governed by their own rules, homophobia is also believed by many scholars to be a concept loaded with contradictions—the ilk of racism and sexism. Indeed, as some would claim it is a weapon of sexism and, like heterosexism, another way to
Abstract: This article reviews some of the factors that have created and reproduced intellectual,... more Abstract: This article reviews some of the factors that have created and reproduced intellectual, historical, political, and disciplinary barriers to understanding the contribution of social oppression as a force in the ...
Selected aspects of the "essentialist" critiques and reviews in Bisexual and Ho... more Selected aspects of the "essentialist" critiques and reviews in Bisexual and Homosexual Identities: Critical Theoretical Issues (De Cecco & Shively, eds., 1983/1984) of the idea of the bisexual identity are examined from the standpoint of their cross-cultural significance. Examples from recent studies in Melanesia are used to highlight possible areas of exploration for future research in homosexuality and bisexuality. The idea of fluidity of sexual identity is examined, including the associated notion of sexual desire.
The American Anthropological Association is considering coordinated research action on AIDS follo... more The American Anthropological Association is considering coordinated research action on AIDS following discussion at the last Annual Meeting in Philadelphia. In Britain, the AIDS Virus and Education Research Trust has awarded Sophie ...
Journal of Gay and Lesbian Social Services, Feb 26, 1999
Jeff A. Beeler and Todd W. Rawls are doctoral students in the Committee on Human Development at t... more Jeff A. Beeler and Todd W. Rawls are doctoral students in the Committee on Human Development at the University of Chicago. Mr. Beeler received his MSW at Jane Addams School of Social Work at the University of Illinois at Chicago and ...
Marriage is a fundamental institution in American culture that provides a social structure of adv... more Marriage is a fundamental institution in American culture that provides a social structure of advantages for wedded couples. Unlike heterosexual citizens in the United States, lesbians and gay men are denied the tangible and intangible benefits of marriage, a deprivation that restricts their citizenship and hinders their mental health and well-being. While research findings confirm the psychosocial capacity of gay men and lesbians to form committed relationships and to parent successfully, marriage denial continues to perpetuate an opportunity structure that disenfranchises gay men and lesbians in the sociocultural, legal, economic, and political aspects of their lives. This article reviews the particular impact of marriage denial on the mental health and well-being of gay men and lesbians and provides an analysis of the historical and cultural factors present in the United States that serve to maintain denial of marriage as an act of discrimination against gay men and lesbians.
This paper examines the historical, cultural, and biographical context of the work of the late UC... more This paper examines the historical, cultural, and biographical context of the work of the late UCLA psychoanalytic psychiatrist Robert J. Stoller, as narrated through the voice of anthropologist Gilbert Herdt, who worked with Stoller over a number of years as a postdoctoral fellow and then a junior colleague. The epistemological and professional goals of Stoller in opening up the field of psychoanalysis to the study of sexual excitement, human sexual variation, a radical revision of homosexuality dynamically, and especially the acceptance of divergent LGBT orientations is examined in the professional development and work of Stoller in the Department of Psychiatry at UCLA in the 1950s–1980s. The final section of the article examines the fieldwork collaboration of Stoller and Herdt in the context of Herdt's Papua New Guinea field site among the Sambia people, with whom he has been working since 1974. Stoller was instrumental not only in supporting LGBT analytic candidates, but in encouraging a more tolerant face-to-face inclusive attitude in research, education, mentoring, and the general Weltanschauung of psychiatry.
3 Selfhood and discourse in Sambia dream sharing GILBERT HERDT Department of Behavioral Sciences,... more 3 Selfhood and discourse in Sambia dream sharing GILBERT HERDT Department of Behavioral Sciences, University of Chicago Dreams are among the most complex of all human communications. Any serious student of dreams knows this and the ...
GILBE RT HERDT is director ofthe Human Sexuality Studies program and professor ofhuman sexuality ... more GILBE RT HERDT is director ofthe Human Sexuality Studies program and professor ofhuman sexuality and anthropology at San Fancisco State University. He is the author or editor ofmany books, including Guardians ofthe Flutes: Idioms ...
University of California Press eBooks, Apr 28, 2023
4 Gilbert H. Herdt Semen Transactions in Sambia Culture INTRODUCTION The theme of this study, sem... more 4 Gilbert H. Herdt Semen Transactions in Sambia Culture INTRODUCTION The theme of this study, semen transactions, may appear esoteric, not to mention vulgar: certainly the question of who gives and receives sperm is not one that much ...
This article examines the transformation of sexual meanings, attitudes, norms, and practices surr... more This article examines the transformation of sexual meanings, attitudes, norms, and practices surrounding depletion and pollution across decades among the Sambia of Papua New Guinea. In the premodern village, all sexual intercourse, whether with boy-initiates or women, was ritualized and ultimately controlled by the men's secret society. Intimate consumption refers traditionally to a symbolic complex of beliefs, concepts, emotions, and ritual experiences involving sexuality, bodily health, social relationships, and gendered politics. But it also covers sexual anxieties corresponding to the transfer and loss of bodily fluids via the perceived depletion and pollution of self and body. For adult men, the sense of intimate consumption requires repeated substance replenishment and purification. Intimate consumption made oral and vaginal sex highly rule-bound, taboo laden, and intensely regulated in terms of the meaning, scope, duration, and intended goals of sexual exchange. Pacification, colonization, out-migration, Seventh Day Adventist (SDA) Christianity, and primary schooling in the Sambia Valley over a period of decades instigated social transformations that challenged and wore down this system of sexual regulation. Thus, the transition from ritual to non-ritual practices, i.e., more individualistic sexual relationships, highlight narratives of change in the Sambia sexuality. With the demise of ritual initiation in the 1980s and 1990s, and the appearance of HIV and SikAids in the Sambia Valley, explicit ritual sexual techniques were no longer socialized. Modernity (in the sense of a set of policies, attitudes, and rules introduced through institutions such as the government community school) and SDA church sociality influenced both the pace and form of this sexual transformation. Among the greatest changes was the expansion of female agency and sexual autonomy, and personal decision-making vis-à-vis especially marriage and also romance, courtship, and sex. Notably, oral sex, once universal and mandatory, largely disappeared from Sambia intimate relations. Today, spousal intimacy reveals a different set of more 'modern' meanings and behaviors compared to two generations ago, e.g., more mutualistic and companionate. Intimate consumption remains a worry for certain Sambia young men and women today however, influenced in part by the rise of the HIV pandemic, mobility, and the absence of normative narratives of sexuality in villages and town settlements. This creates public spaces wherein new sexual subjects have emerged in the villages and urban settlements within the Sambia Valley and in settlements throughout PNG.
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