Proper Sex, Bodies, Culture and Objectification

There are two main goals to this article: First, to illustrate the difficulty in resisting the persuasion of powerful cultural actors, in particular scientists and the media, in respect of what and how to feel about our own bodies, desires and pleasures; second, to sow misunderstanding and show disr...

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Veröffentlicht in:Agenda: Empowering Women for Gender Equity. - Agenda Feminist Media, 1987. - (2005), 63, Seite 32-42
Format: Online-Aufsatz
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: 2005
Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk:Agenda: Empowering Women for Gender Equity
Schlagworte:Sex Culture Bodies Intimacy Behavioral sciences Philosophy Biological sciences Social sciences
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520 |a There are two main goals to this article: First, to illustrate the difficulty in resisting the persuasion of powerful cultural actors, in particular scientists and the media, in respect of what and how to feel about our own bodies, desires and pleasures; second, to sow misunderstanding and show disrespect to certain 'African' views on how to look at women and men's bodies, practices and desires. Underlying these aims is the argument that for anyone to succeed in evading or opposing the power of culture she or he would need to stage a mutiny against culture itself, and therefore the self. The article thus moves for the suspension of the old cultural contract on the sexual, the bodily, and African identity. The long purpose here then is that it is important to be aware that science and culture are always useful to each, just as the cultural and sexual are never disentwined -- such awareness hopefully serving the further aim of seeking to unlearn our desires, images and pleasure from ruling ideologies. The failure to do so is that one is bound to always fail in relating to others and oneself, without sexual or racial objectification. 
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