Normalise Me! Sexual and Gender Identity in Sexological,
Criminological, and Feminist Discourses on Pornography

C 2008

Normalise Me! Sexual and Gender Identity in Sexological, Criminological, and Feminist Discourses on Pornography

LIŠKOVÁ, Kateřina

Basic information

Original name

Normalise Me! Sexual and Gender Identity in Sexological, Criminological, and Feminist Discourses on Pornography

Name in Czech

Znormalizuj mě! Sexuální a genderová identita v sexuologickém, kriminologickém a feministickém diskursu o pornografii

Authors

LIŠKOVÁ, Kateřina (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution)
Marie-Luise Kohlke and Luisa Orza.

Edition

Amsterdam/New York, Negotiating Sexual Idioms: Image, Text, Performance, p. 91-101, 11 pp. At the Interface/Probing the Boundaries, Vol. 53, 2008

Publisher

Rodopi Press

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Kapitola resp. kapitoly v odborné knize

Field of Study

50000 5. Social Sciences

Country of publisher

Netherlands

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14230/08:00025097

Organization unit

Faculty of Social Studies

ISBN

978-90-420-2491-5

Keywords in English

criminology - Czech Republic - feminism - gender - normativity - pornography - sexology

Abstract

ORIG CZ

V originále

To a large extent, the regulatory discourses of sexology and criminology control our understandings of sexual as well as gender identity. By pathologising some identities, they highlight the normal and acceptable, thus reproducing the heteronormative status quo. In this text I analyse Czech sexological and criminological writing on the topic of pornography, as well as feminist anti-pornography arguments, as articulated both in the United States and contemporary Europe. I argue that not only do sexology and criminology produce normalising accounts of gender and sexuality, but that surprising congruences arise between these disciplines and feminist anti-pornography discourse. These discourses share a perception of gender as a binary and stable category and sexuality as essentially heterosexual. Although this is perhaps to be expected from confining discourses such as sexology and criminology, it remains objectionable and proves especially unwelcome in progressive social powers such as feminism.

In Czech

Stať analyzuje způsoby, kterými regulační diskurzy sexuologie a kriminologie kontrolují pojetí genderu a sexuality.

Links

GP403/08/P569, research and development project

Name: Gender, sexualita a performativita v diskursech o pornografii jako sociální reprezentaci sexu

Investor: Czech Science Foundation, Gender, sexuality, and performativity in discourses on pornography as a social representation of sex

Citovat

LIŠKOVÁ, Kateřina. Normalise Me! Sexual and Gender Identity in Sexological, Criminological, and Feminist Discourses on Pornography. Marie-Luise Kohlke and Luisa Orza. In Negotiating Sexual Idioms: Image, Text, Performance. Amsterdam/New York: Rodopi Press, 2008, p. 91-101. At the Interface/Probing the Boundaries, Vol. 53. ISBN 978-90-420-2491-5.

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LIŠKOVÁ, Kateřina. Normalise Me! Sexual and Gender Identity in Sexological, Criminological, and Feminist Discourses on Pornography. Marie-Luise Kohlke and Luisa Orza. In \textit{Negotiating Sexual Idioms: Image, Text, Performance}. Amsterdam/New York: Rodopi Press, 2008, p.~91-101. At the Interface/Probing the Boundaries, Vol. 53. ISBN~978-90-420-2491-5.

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