Heavenly hermaphrodites: sexual difference at the beginning and end of time

DeVun, Leah

doi:10.1057/s41280-018-0080-8

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“…starting from the history of Western civilisation, people tend to view women negatively, as the origin of Eve symbolised in the Bible as who lured Adam into eternal sin, they were also considered semi-human and only have a complementary role in human history (DeVun, 2018;Garvey, 2020). Following their inclination to deceive and misguide men, some researchers even defined that the origin of Femina (Woman) in terms of terminology unavoidably stemmed from Fides and Minus, respectively means 'Faith' and 'Less'; proclaimed that women have a lower level of religious belief than men (Faxneld, 2017, p. 69;Werner, 2011, p. 24).…”

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LGBTQ in Islam: Further Considerations on Nature and Nurture Theory, Radical Feminism, and HIV/AIDS

Maulana,

Fitriyani,

Setyowati

et al. 2023

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This paper aimed to acknowledge LGBTQ as a distinct discourse that emerged from the very foundation of Radical Feminism with specific reference to Nature and Nurture theory, HIV/AIDS, and Islamic theology. This study employed the discourse analysis method to accomplish this goal. It focused on its ideologically beneficial impact by examining power relations in an established narrative, how power relations shape a society or organisation's LGBTQ practices, and analysing its creative change and repetition of ideas and behaviours. Consequently, This research explored LGBTQ from a chronological history and dynamic perspective of Feminism, as well as how such changes reflect and drive societal development of gender equality from sole emancipation of human rights to a radical bodily expression. As an additional reason for addressing the growing difficulty posed by the LGBTQ movement, this research concluded by doing a more in-depth investigation of Islamic teachings concerning the shortcomings of LGBTQ activity with further suggestions regarding better strategies to deal with this challenge.

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LGBTQ in Islam: Further Considerations on Nature and Nurture Theory, Radical Feminism, and HIV/AIDS

Maulana,

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Setyowati

et al. 2023

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“…22Of course, there are rare instances where the sex of the newborn cannot be immediately determined, and there is substantial cultural variation regarding how these individuals are treated. Ancient Greeks, for example, perceived the hermaphrodite as “the perfect balance between male and female” (DeVun, 2018), but these individuals may also be viewed as abnormal and thus persecuted (Foucault, 2003). Sometimes the sexually ambiguous individuals were assigned a gender at birth due to pragmatic concerns (e.g., inheritance) (Gesink, 2018).…”

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The psychology and social dynamics of fetal sex prognostication in China: Evidence from historical data

Hong

Zinin

2023

American Anthropologist

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Fetal sex prognostication has been a common practice in many human societies, yet most of the prognosticative methods do not perform better than chance. Why do these ineffective prognostication practices recur across societies and persist for long periods of time? In this article, we use historical texts of four different genres in traditional China (oracle bone inscriptions, dynastic history, encyclopedia, and local gazetteers) to examine the social and cognitive factors that lead to the overestimation of the predictive accuracy of sex prognostication and place fetal sex prognostication into a more general framework to understand the persistence of ineffective cultural practices. In particular, we present a detailed historical analysis showing that individuals often entertain considerable uncertainty regarding the accuracy of sex prognostication and quantitative data demonstrating a significant bias toward selectively reporting successes in (fictionalized) historical texts. We conclude by discussing how such reporting bias combined with humans’ imperfect information processing may help explain the persistence of ineffective technologies, such as divination, and magic in general.

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Seeing Mobility in Static Images: Tools for Non-Binary Identification in Late Medieval Sources

Sexon

2023

Medieval Mobilities

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Heavenly hermaphrodites: sexual difference at the beginning and end of time

Cited by 10 publications

References 20 publications

LGBTQ in Islam: Further Considerations on Nature and Nurture Theory, Radical Feminism, and HIV/AIDS

LGBTQ in Islam: Further Considerations on Nature and Nurture Theory, Radical Feminism, and HIV/AIDS

The psychology and social dynamics of fetal sex prognostication in China: Evidence from historical data

Seeing Mobility in Static Images: Tools for Non-Binary Identification in Late Medieval Sources

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