Embodied Engagements

Body Mapping in a Sociology of Sexuality Classroom

Bibliographic Data

ID11062063
AuthorsJessica Fields (0000-0001-9800-6440, University of Toronto Scarborough, Toronto, ON, Canada, corresponding author), Stephanie Johnson (0000-0003-4540-2751, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA, USA), Stephanie K Johnson (San Francisco State University), Bex Macfife (0000-0003-0346-3388, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, USA), Patricia Roach (University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada), era steinfeld (Independent Scholar, Austin, TX, USA)
Year2021
Volume49
Issue3
Pages256-266
Publication date2021-07-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueTeaching Sociology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0092-055X • E-ISSN: 1939-862X
PublisherSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0092055x211022470
OpenAlexW3185421015
LanguageEN
Citations received8
References cited25

Using a collaborative autoethnographic approach, we discuss body mapping as an embodied pedagogical practice for teaching sexuality. Body mapping centers stigmatized bodies through guided visual, oral, and textual self-representation. We begin by discussing embodied pedagogies and the bind of representation (ideas grounded in the work of feminists of color) in teaching and learning about sexuality. We then consider three body mapping experiences: in a sexuality education graduate seminar ( seminar mapping), as a remote synchronous practice ( remote mapping), and as a solo practice ( solo mapping). We explore challenges in representation, embodied difference, and the im/possibility of mapping the sexual. Finally, we consider the implications and applications of body-mapping exercises for sexualities classrooms

Embodied cognition · Epistemology · Human sexuality · Pedagogy · Representation (politics · Sociology · Gender Roles and Identity Studies · Gender Studies · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Sports, Gender, and Society

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