In the research literature and in popular culture, women have been typically categorized according to their sexuality. The classic archetypes represent women in terms of both biological and psychological character istics. They are either good or evil. The good woman will be represented biologically as virginal (i. e., pure, innocent, and naive) and psychologically as […]
День: 07.11.2015
Victims of trafficking or migrant sex workers?
As the feminisation of migrant labour accelerates in Asia and the world, the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, especially Women and Children was adopted in 2000 as a supplement to the Convention against Transnational Organised Crime. The UN now defines trafficking in persons as a contemporary form of slavery, especially in […]
MULTIPLE SURGERIES
The statistics tell the story. Although the medical literature exudes confidence about the feasibility of genital makeovers, the procedures are complex and risky. From 30 to 80 percent of children receiving genital surgery undergo more than one operation. It is not uncommon for a child to endure from three to five such procedures. One review […]
IDENTITY, DISABILITY, AND GENDER IN VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS
“Cyberspace has been cast as a post gender, posthuman world, where the ‘lived’ body or ‘meat’ is be [sic] left behind in the real social world. It has been suggested that there is an absence of a physical body in cyberspace, and instead, a disembodied free floating electronic/cyber self or cyber-persona manifests itself in netspace.” […]
Et’s first take a look at physical and psychosexual changes from birth to age 2. We would not label behavior as “sexual” during this time; however, there are many behaviors that arise out of curiosity
Physical Development: Fully Equipped at Birth Our sexual anatomy becomes functional even before we are born; ultrasound has shown male fetuses with erections in the uterus, and some babies develop erections shortly after birth—even before the umbilical cord is cut (Masters et al., 1982). Female babies are capable of vaginal lubrication from birth (Martinson, 1981). […]
‘Bi-curiosity’ and ‘multiplicitious sexualities’
Whenever I raise the issue of homosexuality in class, students are up in arms. They say “it is not African, that it is purely a Western development”, “our cultures do not condone such behaviours”, “it is deviant behaviour”, and so on. I often ask them: “what would you do if your own sister is ‘a […]
The Not So Level Playing Field
Disability Identity and GenderRepresentation in Second Life Abbe E. Forman Temple University, USA Paul M. A. Baker Georgia Institute of Technology, USAJessica Pater Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Kel Smith Anikto LLC, USA ABSTRACT The study reported in this chapter examined gender and disability identity representation in the virtual environment, Second Life. In Second Life, […]
Interviewees’ responses to the legal ascription of fatherhood
Claire and Neil initially sought access to donor insemination in the late 1980s, prior to the HFEA 1990. Under the Anglo-Welsh legal provisions at that time,[273] Neil would have been recognised as the legal father of any child resulting from donor insemination. Consequently, Neil could legally be named as the father on the child’s birth […]
THE SEX INDUSTRY. ‘Thou rascal beadle, hold thy bloody hand!
Why dost thou lash that whore? Strip thine own back;Thou hotly lust’st to use her in that kindTor which thou whipp’st her.’ Shakespeare, King Lear, 1605 [5W7 It’s a job and someone has always done it. Yet prostitution remains one of the most stigmatized professions, despite Щ, its continuing ability to drum up custom. Facts […]
Care is Women’s Work: Issues of Inter-Connection
As I have indicated, feminist research on the social identity of the person who undertakes and is perceived to be primarily responsible for care in society has, unsurprisingly, focused on its gendered character. In particular, it is women who are the primary care givers. In addition, one of the major landmarks of feminist research into […]