Sexe des femmes, sexe des sœurs
Les organes génitaux féminins à Chuuk (Micronésie)
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11708463 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Beatriz Moral-Ledesma (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2000 |
| Volume | 110 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 49-63 |
| Publication date | 2000-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal de la Société des océanistes (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0300-953X • E-ISSN: 1760-7256 |
| Publisher | PERSEE Program (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.3406/jso.2000.2115 |
| OpenAlex | W2033442227 |
| Language | FR |
| Citations received | 2 |
In this paper I will analyze the way the people from Chuuk (Micronesia) conceive of female genitals. This part of the female body is considered essential for female identity, an identity structured on a polarity from which no woman can escape: being a «sister» («family woman», «woman out of sex»), and a «sexual woman» («woman out of family») simultaneously. Modesty rules issuing from the incest taboo oblige women to hide their genitals, in order to show themselves as asexuated beings. But their genitals are at the same time highly valued when they are considered as «sexual women» and not as sisters. The centrality of the sister role (and the expected behavior that issues from the incest taboo) as well as the identification of female genitals as the main emblem of sex, are the basis of a female conception that has a paradoxical aspect but is based on a consistent and unitary logic
Aesthetics · Art · Emblem · Identity (music · Literature · Sister · Sociology · Taboo · Virginity test · Anthropology · Gender Studies · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis · Migration, Identity, and Health · Psychology · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,07 |
| Citation span | 1998 - 2016 (19) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |