Where Kinsey, Christ, and Tila Tequila Meet
Discourse and the Sexual (Non)-Binary
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3663643 |
|---|---|
| Authors | April Scarlette Callis (Northern Kentucky University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 61 |
| Issue | 12 |
| Pages | 1627-1648 |
| Publication date | 2014-12-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Homosexuality (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0091-8369 • E-ISSN: 1540-3602 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00918369.2014.951208 |
| PMID | 25089615 |
| OpenAlex | W2027969825 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 33 |
Drawing on 80 interviews and 17 months of participant observation in Lexington, Kentucky, this article details how individuals drew on three areas of national and local discourse to conceptualize sexuality. Media, popular science, and religious discourses can be viewed as portraying sexuality bifocally--as both a binary of heterosexual/homosexual and as a non-binary that encompasses fluidity. However, individuals in Lexington drew on each of these areas of discourse differently. Religion was thought to produce a binary vision of sexuality, whereas popular science accounts were understood as both binary and not. The media was understood as portraying non-binary identities that were not viable, thus strengthening the sexual binary. These differing points of view led identities such as bisexual and queer to lack cultural intelligibility
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| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,27 |
| Citation span | 2015 - 2024 (10) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |