By Tamsin Wilton (auth.)
ISBN-10: 0230506216
ISBN-13: 9780230506213
ISBN-10: 1403905746
ISBN-13: 9781403905741
Tamsin Wilton interviewed on the subject of 100 girls so that it will know the way we pass approximately developing a sexual id as 'lesbian' or 'heterosexual'. How do ladies event hope? What are the variations among women and men as sexual companions? How do hope, excitement, intimacy, gender and morality develop into a part of women's experience of self? Asking those, and different questions, this research breaks throughout the stand-off among essentialists and constructionists to suggest a clean re-thinking of the needing self.
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After all, something cannot be a rational choice and at the same time an intrinsic malfunction of an individual's biological makeup. However rational it might be to be, say, whiteskinned in a white supremacist culture, individuals may not change their skin colour at will, since it is biologically determined. The biomedical paradigm proposes that sexual orientation is a biological characteristic of the same order as skin or eye colour. Participants gave a substantial degree of credence to this paradigm; yet at the same time they seemed to believe in the potential for individuals to express a sexual preference on the grounds of rational self-interest.
In short, the fantasy of objectivity is an intrinsic element of the masculinist technical/epistemological paradigm. Postmodernist theory, which we may now see as the inevitable product of various new social movements or counter-hegemonic intellectual/ activist projects (including feminism), has developed and enlarged thisinitially political - distrust of objectivity. From within the postmodern paradigm, assertions of impersonal detachment appear as one among many semiotic strategies deployed to underpin truth-claims that are inevitably competing, contingent and permeable.
5) And that the experience of rejecting heterosexuality and adopting a lesbian identity puts women in a position where they are obliged to question all of the above and to develop a more critical and reflexive account of sexuality than is usual. Women who have transitioned from heterosexuality to self-identification as lesbian are, for my purposes here, privileged informants. They are unlike always-lesbian women in that their history gives them a lived insight into the operations of heterosexuality, and unlike alwaysheterosexual women in their lived experience of lesbian identity, life and sexuality.
Sexual (Dis)Orientation: Gender, Sex, Desire and Self-fashioning by Tamsin Wilton (auth.)
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