Kristina Gupta
Biographic Data
| ID | 3742672 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kristina Gupta |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kristina |
| FAMILY NAME | Gupta |
| SIGNATURE | GUPTA K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Wake Forest University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 96 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Asexuality and Sexual Normativity
Gendering asexuality and asexualizing gender
In this article, I explore the intersections between gender and asexuality, drawing on data collected from in-depth interviews with 30 asexually-identified individuals living in the United States. I examine the differential effects that gendered sexual norms have on asexually-identified men and women and begin to explore the relationship between asexuality, gender non-conformity, and trans* identities. Based on these findings, I argue that while …
The Structural Vulnerability of Doctoral Students
Feminist Studies 44, no. 2. © 2018 by Feminist Studies, Inc. 409 Kristina Gupta The Structural Vulnerability of Doctoral Students: A Political and Ethical Issue for Doctoral Programs in Women’s/ Gender/Sexuality/Feminist Studies This article begins with two key assumptions: first, PhD programs in women’s, gender, sexuality, and feminist studies (WGSFS) should be feminist not just in terms of content (that is, what is taught) but also in terms of …
Queer Feminist Science Studies
Queer Feminist Science Studies takes a transnational, trans-species, and intersectional approach to this cutting-edge area of inquiry between women’s, gender, and sexuality studies and science and technology studies (STS). The essays here “queer”—or denaturalize and make strange—ideas that are taken for granted in both areas of study. Reimagining the meanings of and relations among queer and feminist theories and a wide range of scientific discip…
And Now I'm Just Different, but There's Nothing Actually Wrong With Me
This article explores the relationship between contemporary asexual lives and compulsory sexuality, or the privileging of sexuality and the marginalizing of nonsexuality. Drawing on 30 in-depth interviews, I identify four ways the asexually identified individuals in this study saw themselves as affected by compulsory sexuality: pathologization, isolation, unwanted sex and relationship conflict, and the denial of epistemic authority. I also identi…
Compulsory Sexuality
Partially in response to the recent articulation of asexual identities and communities, scholars have begun to use the term compulsory sexuality to describe the assumption that all people are sexual and to describe the social norms and practices that both marginalize various forms of nonsexuality and compel people to experience themselves as desiring subjects, take up sexual identities, and engage in sexual activity. This article examines the dev…
Picturing Space for Lesbian Nonsexualities
This article examines representations of lesbian nonsexuality in the film The Kids Are All Right and in responses to the film by feminist and queer scholars. In some moments, the film offers a limited endorsement of lesbian nonsexuality, placing pressure on the category lesbian to include nonsexuality and asexuality. However, in their responses to the film, many feminist and queer scholars rejected nonsexuality as an aspect of lesbian experience,…
Sexual improvement as if your health depends on it
Adding to a small but growing feminist literature, this article critically examines popular, contemporary American sex manuals from a feminist social constructionist perspective, focusing specifically on how these manuals construct gender and sexual norms. With notable exceptions, the majority of these manuals are geared toward white, heterosexual, middle-class, able-bodied, and cisgendered audiences. We argue that in addition to positioning sexu…
Screw Health”
The Need for Care Coordination Among Children with Special Health Care Needs in Illinois
And Now I'm Just Different, but There's Nothing Actually Wrong With Me
This article explores the relationship between contemporary asexual lives and compulsory sexuality, or the privileging of sexuality and the marginalizing of nonsexuality. Drawing on 30 in-depth interviews, I identify four ways the asexually identified individuals in this study saw themselves as affected by compulsory sexuality: pathologization, isolation, unwanted sex and relationship conflict, and the denial of epistemic authority. I also identi…
Compulsory Sexuality
Partially in response to the recent articulation of asexual identities and communities, scholars have begun to use the term compulsory sexuality to describe the assumption that all people are sexual and to describe the social norms and practices that both marginalize various forms of nonsexuality and compel people to experience themselves as desiring subjects, take up sexual identities, and engage in sexual activity. This article examines the dev…
Sexual improvement as if your health depends on it
Adding to a small but growing feminist literature, this article critically examines popular, contemporary American sex manuals from a feminist social constructionist perspective, focusing specifically on how these manuals construct gender and sexual norms. With notable exceptions, the majority of these manuals are geared toward white, heterosexual, middle-class, able-bodied, and cisgendered audiences. We argue that in addition to positioning sexu…
Picturing Space for Lesbian Nonsexualities
This article examines representations of lesbian nonsexuality in the film The Kids Are All Right and in responses to the film by feminist and queer scholars. In some moments, the film offers a limited endorsement of lesbian nonsexuality, placing pressure on the category lesbian to include nonsexuality and asexuality. However, in their responses to the film, many feminist and queer scholars rejected nonsexuality as an aspect of lesbian experience,…
The Structural Vulnerability of Doctoral Students
Feminist Studies 44, no. 2. © 2018 by Feminist Studies, Inc. 409 Kristina Gupta The Structural Vulnerability of Doctoral Students: A Political and Ethical Issue for Doctoral Programs in Women’s/ Gender/Sexuality/Feminist Studies This article begins with two key assumptions: first, PhD programs in women’s, gender, sexuality, and feminist studies (WGSFS) should be feminist not just in terms of content (that is, what is taught) but also in terms of …
The Need for Care Coordination Among Children with Special Health Care Needs in Illinois
Screw Health”
Picturing Space for Lesbian Nonsexualities
This article examines representations of lesbian nonsexuality in the film The Kids Are All Right and in responses to the film by feminist and queer scholars. In some moments, the film offers a limited endorsement of lesbian nonsexuality, placing pressure on the category lesbian to include nonsexuality and asexuality. However, in their responses to the film, many feminist and queer scholars rejected nonsexuality as an aspect of lesbian experience,…
Sexual improvement as if your health depends on it
Adding to a small but growing feminist literature, this article critically examines popular, contemporary American sex manuals from a feminist social constructionist perspective, focusing specifically on how these manuals construct gender and sexual norms. With notable exceptions, the majority of these manuals are geared toward white, heterosexual, middle-class, able-bodied, and cisgendered audiences. We argue that in addition to positioning sexu…
Compulsory Sexuality
Partially in response to the recent articulation of asexual identities and communities, scholars have begun to use the term compulsory sexuality to describe the assumption that all people are sexual and to describe the social norms and practices that both marginalize various forms of nonsexuality and compel people to experience themselves as desiring subjects, take up sexual identities, and engage in sexual activity. This article examines the dev…
Queer Feminist Science Studies
Queer Feminist Science Studies takes a transnational, trans-species, and intersectional approach to this cutting-edge area of inquiry between women’s, gender, and sexuality studies and science and technology studies (STS). The essays here “queer”—or denaturalize and make strange—ideas that are taken for granted in both areas of study. Reimagining the meanings of and relations among queer and feminist theories and a wide range of scientific discip…
And Now I'm Just Different, but There's Nothing Actually Wrong With Me
This article explores the relationship between contemporary asexual lives and compulsory sexuality, or the privileging of sexuality and the marginalizing of nonsexuality. Drawing on 30 in-depth interviews, I identify four ways the asexually identified individuals in this study saw themselves as affected by compulsory sexuality: pathologization, isolation, unwanted sex and relationship conflict, and the denial of epistemic authority. I also identi…
The Structural Vulnerability of Doctoral Students
Feminist Studies 44, no. 2. © 2018 by Feminist Studies, Inc. 409 Kristina Gupta The Structural Vulnerability of Doctoral Students: A Political and Ethical Issue for Doctoral Programs in Women’s/ Gender/Sexuality/Feminist Studies This article begins with two key assumptions: first, PhD programs in women’s, gender, sexuality, and feminist studies (WGSFS) should be feminist not just in terms of content (that is, what is taught) but also in terms of …
Gendering asexuality and asexualizing gender
In this article, I explore the intersections between gender and asexuality, drawing on data collected from in-depth interviews with 30 asexually-identified individuals living in the United States. I examine the differential effects that gendered sexual norms have on asexually-identified men and women and begin to explore the relationship between asexuality, gender non-conformity, and trans* identities. Based on these findings, I argue that while …
Asexuality and Sexual Normativity
Gender Studies (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Human sexuality (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Law (4 works) · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works)