Sex Acts Beyond Boundaries and Binaries
A Feminist Challenge for Self Care in Performance Studies
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12370091 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Elizabeth Bell (0000-0003-1021-9287, University of South Florida, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2005 |
| Volume | 25 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 187-219 |
| Publication date | 2005-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Text and Performance Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1046-2937 • E-ISSN: 1479-5760 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/10462930500271752 |
| OpenAlex | W2124329174 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 19 |
| References cited | 77 |
This essay calls for heterosexual feminists in performance studies to engage in theorizing and problematizing sex, its expressions and effects, evidenced in sanctioned and mundane moments in our lives. Sex acts, at their most normative, can be engaged contextually and critically for the ways disciplinary practices and discourses operate more powerfully on women's bodies than on those of men. This essay utilizes Foucault's characteristics of scientia sexualis to critique the constructions of heterosexual women's sex lives in disciplines that study sex. It then turns to three binary constructions—sex and gender, pleasure and danger, and public and private—that must be attended to and negotiated. Three examples of such brave attention in performance studies are featured as libratory technologies of self-crafting and world fashioning
Discipline · Epistemology · Human sexuality · Normative · Pleasure · Social science · Sociology · Diversity and Impact of Dance · Gender Roles and Identity Studies · Gender Studies · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Psychology
Legal fictions and bodily realities
Exploring Female Narratives of Sexual Intimacy and the Social Suppression of Desire
With(out) pleasure
Chemsex as wild self-care
Auto(erotic)ethnography
Faking It, Finishing, and Ambivalence
Webbing Sexual/Textual Agency in Autobiographical Narratives of Pleasure
Embodying/writing/performing “women’s work”
Performing “Of” and “In”
Now I’d like to sleep with Rachael’ – researching sexuality support in a service agency group home
Fifty Shades of Complexity
Doing It
Wild Self-Care
Confessions of a Video Vixen
Performance studies in communication
My Transformative Desires
The Placebo as Performance
Heteronormativity made me lesbian
Resisting (Resistance) Stories
Sexuality
Sexual Dysfunction in the United States
Frequency of Sexual Dysfunction in “Normal” Couples
Verbal art as performance
Toward an anthropology of women.
Performance Studies
Technologies of Gender
Breakthrough Into Performance
New Sexual Agendas
Ethics
Recasting Ritual
Ludic Feminism and After
Nomadic subjects
Black Feminist Thought
Heterosexuality in Question
Perform or Else
Undoing Gender
Narrative Identity in a Solo Performance
One More First Time
Disciplinary Violation as Gender Violation
A van with a bar and a bed”
On being an exemplary lesbian
Refreshment
Weddings and pornography
Sextext
Performing the second‐person
Love me gender
Performance studies as women's work
Feminist Politics and Feminist Pluralism
Embodying Orgasm
Feminism, Multiculturalism, and Spirituality
The Fantasy Factory
Race, Class and Gender
Race, Class, and Gender
The Female Body in Western Culture
Stress, sexual functioning, and marital satisfaction
Structural Anthropology
The Essence of the Triangle or, Taking the Risk of Essentialism Seriously
Rethinking ethnography
Feminism and Sexuality
Saint Foucault
Appropriating Blackness
Gender in Counterpoint
Pedagogy in the Context of an Antihomophobic Project
The Rest Cure
Gender's nature
Queer Criticism and Sexual Normativity
Queer Theory and Performance
The Queering of Swan Lake
"Disciplining "Sextext
Queering Marriage
The Anthropology of Performance
Performative Acts and Gender Constitution
Verbal Art as Performance1
Torch
Black Skin/White Masks
An Invitation to Dialogue
Sex in America
Adultery
| Unique citing works | 19 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,06 |
| Citation span | 2008 - 2026 (19) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 19 |