Sex as a normalising technology
Early-twentieth-century public sex education campaigns
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12978281 |
|---|---|
| Authors | E Stephens (0000-0002-9109-1598, The University of Queensland, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 1 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 262-274 |
| Publication date | 2010-08-04 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Psychology and Sexuality (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1941-9902 • E-ISSN: 1941-9899 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/19419899.2010.494903 |
| OpenAlex | W2160501074 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 4 |
This article examines the conceptual interdependence of sexuality and normality. It begins with an interrogation of the widespread association of queer studies and practice with, in Judith Halberstam's words, ‘nonnormative logics and organisations of community, sexual identity, embodiment, and activity’. To contextualise this, the article traces the historical circumstances in which normality and sexuality emerge contemporaneously, as mutually reinforcing aspects of what Foucault has termed the disciplinary society. This article considers the ongoing impact of this history by taking as its focus the development of a public discourse about sex in the public education campaigns about venereal disease in the early-twentieth-century USA. In so doing, it aims to problematise assumptions with contemporary queer theory that ‘normative’ sexuality itself represents a stable status quo against which queer's celebration of the fluid and contingent can be unproblematically contrasted, by demonstrating the volatility of the sexual ‘norm’ itself
Discipline · Heterosexism · Homosexuality · Human sexuality · Norm (philosophy · Normality · Normative · Political science · Queer · Sexual identity · Social science · Sociology · Status quo · Feminism, Gender, and Sexuality Studies · Gender Studies · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes · Law · Philosophy and Social Theory · Psychology · Social Psychology
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,09 |
| Citation span | 2015 - 2015 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |