Ironic Gender/Authentic Sex

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ID4577305
AuthorsVirginia Goldner (Adelphi University, corresponding author)
Year2003
Volume4
Issue2
Pages113-139
Publication date2003-04-04
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueStudies in Gender and Sexuality (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1524-0657 • E-ISSN: 1940-9206
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/15240650409349219
OpenAlexW2037558224
LanguageEN
Citations received34
References cited12

Feminism and the postmodern turn have vaporized the commonsense materiality of gender and sexuality, both in theory and, for many, as lived experience. But where gender has moved to the ironic, sexuality still holds the space for the “authentic.” Gender now seems squarely positioned in a postmodern sensibility, but sexuality still veers between the modern and the postmodern. We can conceive and experience gender as being “made,” but sexuality retains the mark of something “found” and often, as Foucault demonstrated, of something “found out.” In an attempt to account for these divergent trajectories, the author attempts to historicize and deconstruct the categories of gender and sexuality in order to reflect on their modes of psychic action and to consider how they work with, and against, each other in mind and culture

Aesthetics · Art · Deconstruction (building) · Epistemology · Feminism · Human sexuality · Literature · Materiality (auditing) · Postmodernism · Psychic · Psychoanalysis · Sensibility · Sociology · Feminism, Gender, and Sexuality Studies · Foucault, Power, and Ethics · Gender Studies · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes · Philosophy · Psychology

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