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Sexuality, gender and violence in the 21st century: an introduction

datacite.subject.sdg03:Saúde de Qualidadept_PT
datacite.subject.sdg04:Educação de Qualidadept_PT
datacite.subject.sdg05:Igualdade de Géneropt_PT
dc.contributor.authorGrau, Begonya Enguix
dc.contributor.authorVieira, Cristina Pereira
dc.date.accessioned2023-05-29T16:29:24Z
dc.date.available2023-05-29T16:29:24Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.description.abstractMany years ago, the American anthropologist Gayle Rubin used “hierarchy” to illustrate how different systems of sex and gender become organised around (socially accepted) valued positions and produce sex-gender hierarchies where the top is the institution of heterosexual marriage (Rubin, 1989). Next to heterosexual marriage in value terms, we find heterosexual monogamous non-married people followed by other heterosexuals. Stable lesbian and gay couples are right on the edge of respectability, but promiscuous gays and lesbians hover just above the groups at the bottom of the pyramid. The most despised sexual castes include, according to this author, transsexuals, transvestites, fetishists, sadomasochists, sex workers and those who work in pornography. In the absolute lowest position we find those whose eroticism transgresses generational boundaries. Sex and gender hierarchies together with the sociocultural valorisation of the masculine over the feminine are deeply entangled with power and privileges and have brought about injustice and violence. Hierarchies rely on classification. Sexuality-gender classifications are basic to the social order organised around the Social Standard, which establishes guidelines as to how the relations between the people of a given society should be constituted and developed, contributing to the reproduction of the social order (Vieira & Costa, 2016). (...)pt_PT
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dc.identifier.citationEnguix, B. & Vieira, C. P. (2020). Sexuality, Gender And Violence In The 21st Century: an Introduction. In Enguix, B. & Vieira, C .P. (Eds). Sexualities, Gender And Violence: A View From The Iberian Peninsula (vii-xxii). Nova Science.pt_PT
dc.identifier.isbn978-1-53618-173-9
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10400.2/13892
dc.language.isoengpt_PT
dc.peerreviewedyespt_PT
dc.publisherNova Science Publisherspt_PT
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/pt_PT
dc.subjectSexualidadept_PT
dc.subjectViolência de géneropt_PT
dc.subjectEducaçãopt_PT
dc.titleSexuality, gender and violence in the 21st century: an introductionpt_PT
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oaire.citation.endPagexxiipt_PT
oaire.citation.startPageviipt_PT
oaire.citation.titleSexualities, Gender And Violence: A View From The Iberian Peninsulapt_PT
person.familyNameVieira
person.givenNameCristina Pereira
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person.identifier.orcid0000-0002-5494-5371
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