Sex and Gender in the 1970s

The late 1960s through the early 1970s was a time of profound social change both in American society and in sociology. Sociological attention shifted from social pathology to deviant subcultures and to labeling processes, shifting again by the 1990s to the study of social control. Many ethnographic studies of homosexuality were undertaken in the 1960s and 1970s in the tradition of labeling and stigma, including Laud Humphreys' Tearoom Trade (1970) and my Identity and Community in the Gay World (Warren 1974). Male ethnographers in particular were often stigmatized along with the deviants they studied, while the women (including me) were sometimes discouraged from doing graduate-level sociology at all. Thirty years later, the terrains of gender, sexuality and stigma have changed, yet pockets of pro-stigma resistance remain. Even in the 2000s, the stigma of homosexuality has not entirely disappeared. And, above all, the essentializing categories of homosexual, bisexual and heterosexual remain firmly entrenched in public discourse, sociological analysis, homophobia and gay activism.     

郭沫若史剧的男女人格共建观

主张通过男女人格的互补与共建来促进人的自由和谐发展,进而推动社会的自由高效发展,这是女权主义的创造性见解。中国现代著名戏剧家郭沫若,是女权主义这一主张的赞同者。他的历史剧所揭示的人格建设观,具体内涵包括:男性应当向女性学习人格,女性应当向男性学习人格,男女应当共同追求高尚人格。     

偶然的巧合？历史的必然从——《嘉莉妹妹》看中国女性发展的现状

本文以《嘉莉妹妹》的主人公嘉莉为实现自己的梦想而在城市中努力奋斗的经历和事迹为参照,同时结合当今中国社会女性的生存现状,尝试对二者在时代背景、文化传统、欲望追求以及自我意识等方面的极其相似之处进行比较与分析,提出两性关系和谐维系、共同发展的新思路,为中国女性发展的现状提供一个学理式的文本解读,也为新时期的女性研究提供一个可供参考的模式。     

浅析《简·萨默斯的日记》中的男性观

本文对多丽丝·莱辛在她的小说《简·萨默斯的日记》中的男性观加以论述。     

白先勇小说同性恋者的悲剧命运探微

白先勇的小说脍炙人口,其中不乏以同性恋为题材的小说。1988年,白先勇公开了自己的性取向。因此,从白先勇的小说看同性恋的世界,不再是雾里看花。白先勇以他独特的小说技巧描述同性恋者的悲剧命运。同性恋者的命运是充满悲剧的,同性恋者一生被流在血液里的生理欲望孽魔纠缠。年轻俊美时,尚能容易满足生理欲望孽魔的需要;随着时光流逝,年岁增长,面容逐渐衰老,再也无法轻易满足生理欲望孽魔的需要。为此,老同性恋者得奔波劳碌、伺机寻找可以满足他们生理欲望孽魔需要的青春鸟,不少的同性恋者也因着得了爱滋病而离开世界。同性恋者一生的命运是悲哀的,白先勇悲天悯人的情怀让读者更深入地了解了同性恋者的世界和他们黑暗的国度。     

Articulations of Same-sex Desire: Lesbian and Gay Male Dating Advertisements

A survey of self and other categorisation in 200 lesbian and gay male dating advertisement texts, taken from current magazines and newspapers, reveals the discursive means by which homosexual advertisers in our corpus commodify and market sexual/self-gendered identities. Detailed analysis of a sub-sample of the advertisements allows us to trace the discourse processes and conventions used in formulating identity in such texts. We interpret these discourse practices in relation to a social critique of gay attitudes, beliefs and lifestyles. The different conventions for self-commodification followed by lesbians and gay men in this survey suggest generalisable differences in sexual stance and cultural identification     

Exploring Gay Male Erotic Art: An Interview with Edward Lucie-Smith

The last twenty-five years have seen the emergence of a transnational gay/lesbian/bisexual/transgender (GLBT)/queer cultural movement unprecedented historically in its scope and openness. This interview with British art historian and critic Edward Lucie-Smith examines the role of gay male erotic art and film within that movement. Taking its start from the centrality of same-sex sexual orientation to the sense of gay identity and the importance of erotic art in validating that identity, it explores the historical, psychological, and social significance of a branch of visual art that until recent decades was not even acknowledged to exist, much less considered an appropriate subject of scholarly interest. By discussing gay male erotic art within a serious art-historical context, the article aims at providing a framework for examining the topic more systematically within the GLBT/queer studies domain.     

缅寺与傣族男性的传统社会化

缅寺是西双版纳村社普遍存在的南传上座部佛教的基层佛寺,它在傣族男性传统社会化过程中发挥着十分重要的作用。傣族男性成员在缅寺生活期间,不仅接受了大量的宗教文化熏陶,而且受到广泛的世俗文化教育。某种程度上甚至可以说,没有缅寺就没有傣族男性的传统社会化,也就没有傣族在心理和行为方面表现出的各种优良品质。     

唯美主义与同性恋视野中的王尔德

国内对奥斯卡.王尔德的研究集中在他的唯美主义观和戏剧方面,而对其蕴涵的同性恋倾向和寓意往往是批评性地一笔带过。在王尔德的《W.H.先生的肖像》和《道连.格雷的画像》中,可以看出:前者是王尔德对同性恋历史的追溯和对莎翁十四行诗中隐含同性恋内涵的证实;后者表征了王尔德对同性恋的困惑和探索以及在同性恋视野中王尔德的人生底蕴和美学观。     

Investigating Differences in How the News Media Views Homosexuality Across Nations: An Analysis of the United States,South Africa,and Uganda

While there is a wealth of information about the extent to which people across the world disapprove of homosexuality, we know a lot less about the lenses through which they view same‐sex relations. The aim of this study is to understand better how homosexuality is framed in the public press, and how religion and economic development may combine to shape this discourse. Through an analysis of almost 400 newspaper articles, this study compares how homosexuality is framed in Uganda, South Africa, and the United States. Because these nations have high levels of religious belief, but differ in their level of economic development and democracy, we can assess how these factors interact to shape portrayals. Drawing on work from cultural sociology and the sociology of religion, this study shows that the United States is much more likely than Uganda to frame homosexuality as a civil rights issue and use entertainers as claimsmakers. Conversely, articles from Uganda are more likely than those from the United States or South Africa to frame homosexuality as a religious issue and draw on religious claimsmakers. Likewise, Uganda is much more likely than South Africa to discuss homosexuality in the context of Western influences.