In the contemporary approach to literature and culture there is an opening of a new way of thinking about old concept by rethinking of sex, gender and sexuality. It assumes that sexual identity is fluid not fixed and critiques gender and sexuality. Sex and gender do not mean the same. Sex is the biological or anatomical construction that defines between the male and the female. Gender is often regarded to be the natural or innate expression of biological sex. A female is gendered feminine and a male is gendered masculine. Originally biological sex does not determine gender expression. In The Traffic in Women: Notes on the “Political Economy” of Sex (1975) Gayle Rubin writes: Sex is sex, but what counts as sex is …culturally determined and obtained
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It has been regarded as one of the primary elements in a person’s identity along with race, class, and gender. There are different types of Sexuality. Everyone’s sexuality is different. Sexuality is not defined by sex. Normally sexuality is a standard of sexual behavior expected from adults in a society. It is defined by how one feels and chooses to identify oneself. Primitive society had a collective sexuality. Michel Foucault‘s The History of Sexuality (three volume 1978-1986) is one of the foundation of sexuality. According to Foucault sexuality is historically evolved. He claims that sexuality is a construct with social and cultural origins. Foucault claims that sexuality stands for a powerful, anarchic force that always threatens …show more content…
Emotional sharing and bonding through work or play, giving and receiving mental support and sharing experience of joy and worries are include in woman- identified experience.
Lesbianism and feminism originated from the same soil as a protest against patriarchal oppression. Lesbianism is concerned with the issue of personal identity. It addresses issues related to both sexism and heterosexism. They are marginalized by heterosexual feminist. There are two major thinking within lesbian theory itself. The first one is lesbian feminism originated from within feminism. Lesbian studies emerged in the 1980s as a kind of annex of feminism. With the help of the publication of the manifesto The Woman Identified Woman (1971) the new phrase Radical Lesbian Feminism launched.
The contemporary lesbian writers include Jeanette Winterson, Gloria Anzaldua, Leslie Feinberg, Minnie Bruce Pratt, Rita Mae Brown, Paula Gunn Allen, Dorothy Allison, Ann Allen Shockley, Monique Witting, Jewelle Gomez, June Arnold, Valerie Miner, Jane Rule, Bertha Harris, Sarah Shulman, Nicole Brossard and Adrienne
It has been regarded as one of the primary elements in a person’s identity along with race, class, and gender. There are different types of Sexuality. Everyone’s sexuality is different. Sexuality is not defined by sex. Normally sexuality is a standard of sexual behavior expected from adults in a society. It is defined by how one feels and chooses to identify oneself. Primitive society had a collective sexuality. Michel Foucault‘s The History of Sexuality (three volume 1978-1986) is one of the foundation of sexuality. According to Foucault sexuality is historically evolved. He claims that sexuality is a construct with social and cultural origins. Foucault claims that sexuality stands for a powerful, anarchic force that always threatens …show more content…
Emotional sharing and bonding through work or play, giving and receiving mental support and sharing experience of joy and worries are include in woman- identified experience.
Lesbianism and feminism originated from the same soil as a protest against patriarchal oppression. Lesbianism is concerned with the issue of personal identity. It addresses issues related to both sexism and heterosexism. They are marginalized by heterosexual feminist. There are two major thinking within lesbian theory itself. The first one is lesbian feminism originated from within feminism. Lesbian studies emerged in the 1980s as a kind of annex of feminism. With the help of the publication of the manifesto The Woman Identified Woman (1971) the new phrase Radical Lesbian Feminism launched.
The contemporary lesbian writers include Jeanette Winterson, Gloria Anzaldua, Leslie Feinberg, Minnie Bruce Pratt, Rita Mae Brown, Paula Gunn Allen, Dorothy Allison, Ann Allen Shockley, Monique Witting, Jewelle Gomez, June Arnold, Valerie Miner, Jane Rule, Bertha Harris, Sarah Shulman, Nicole Brossard and Adrienne