Leatherdyke Boys and Their Daddies: How to Have Sex without Women or Men

Hale, Christiane

doi:10.2307/466741

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“…C. Jacob Hale's discussion of the "multiple, context-specific, and purpose-specific sex/gender statuses" performed within the leatherdyke community illustrates the "cultural situatednesses" of gender performance and identification. 9 As Hale indicates, a variety of subcultural gender rules and regulations exist alongside hegemonic gender norms. In contrast to settings in which diverse identification is hidden or punished, there are also environments in which a number of gender statuses beyond the man/woman dichotomy are recognized.…”

Section: Situated Identificationmentioning

confidence: 98%

Situating “FLUIDITY”

Davis¹

2009

GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies

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Drawing on Butler's theory of gender performativity, which conceptualizes the discursive production of the gendered subject and the corresponding “constitutive instabilities” of such reiterative practices, I provide an empirical sociological examination of how individuals negotiate potentially unintelligible identities in their daily lives and the extent to which these practices call into question the conceptual dichotomization of stability and fluidity. While transsexed bodies, histories, and identities may “exceed” the limits of intelligibility, trans individuals are engaged in the process of meaning making—creating coherence both for themselves and for others. The present theorizing of (trans)gender identification has not fully explored the interaction among social expectations, individuals' attempts to be credible, and the structural limitations on intelligible gender identifications. In addition, despite theoretical arguments resting on the compulsory, regulatory nature of gender regimes, gender fluidity is often situated as counter to such regulation. By exploring the negotiated identifications of transsexed respondents across different interactional spaces and the structural rules and norms which frame such presentation choices, this article theorizes the contextual regulation of (trans)gender diversity and the corresponding production of situated identification. Further, in examining this negotiation, the concept of fluidity is interrogated in order to complicate the analytic dualism of fluidity/stability and the corresponding dichotomous positioning of transsexed individuals as either blurring or reifying the boundaries of the gender binary.

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Section: Situated Identificationmentioning

confidence: 98%

Situating “FLUIDITY”

Davis¹

2009

GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies

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“…8 Newmahr may well be right; however, the tropological themes in BDSM can be developed further than that. For instance, anal fisting belongs to BDSM, or we can situate it as a practice in the repertoire of BDSM (Hale, 1997;Weinberg, Williams, & Moser, 1984). The idea sounds radical, painful, and dangerous, or impossibly repulsive from the point of view of its nonintended audiences.…”

Section: Tropological Delineationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Language of Pain: A Philosophical Study of BDSM

Airaksinen

2018

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This philosophical article attempts to promote the recognition of the social world of BDSM in philosophical and tropological perspective. BDSM, and especially sadomasochism, is difficult to understand in its own, characteristic motivational perspective because such negative experiences as, say, pain and humiliation, indicate aversion rather than attraction. To cause pain to others is typically condemned. To cosset pain and suffering is said to be perverse. My main point is we that can better understand BDSM via its typical language and rhetoric, especially by paying attention to the key role of linguistic metonymy when we discuss the riddles of pain and pleasure. Also, this article discusses the various ways of talking about and potentially condemning BDSM by calling it a perversion or a paraphilic disorder. I conclude that, within some reasonable limits, BDSM is not vulnerable to the standard forms of criticism.

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“…When masculinity is conceived of as the product of male bodies, the masculinities performed by women are invalidated as gender deviance and simulations of maleness rather than something ''produced by, for, and within women'' (Halberstam 1998, p. 15). Additionally, scholarship on the fluctuation of gender and sexual norms depending on historical context and (co-)cultural codes describes practices that address Butler (1993) and Halberstam's concerns regarding gender's indispensable role in destabilizing the naturalized link between genitalia, bodily performance, and sexuality (Hale 2003;Halperin 1990).…”

Section: Narrativizing Bodies: Becoming Sexual Subjectsmentioning

confidence: 99%