RE: THINKING SEX FROM THE GLOBAL SOUTH AFRICA

This article investigates Gayle Rubin's 1984 article "Thinking Sex: Notes for a Radical Theory of the Politics of Sexuality" as a piece of "traveling theory." It takes a key concept, "hierarchies of sexual value," and its representation in a famous graphic, "t...

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Published in:GLQ 2011, Vol.17 (1), p.119-124
Main Author: Hoad, Neville
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Concepts
Feminist Theory
Gender
Gender and Sexuality
Political science
Queer Theory
Sex and Sexuality
Sex Role Identity
Sex roles
Sexual behavior
South Africa
Theory and Philosophy
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Summary:This article investigates Gayle Rubin's 1984 article "Thinking Sex: Notes for a Radical Theory of the Politics of Sexuality" as a piece of "traveling theory." It takes a key concept, "hierarchies of sexual value," and its representation in a famous graphic, "the charmed circle," to see what aspects of sexual politics in South Africa Rubin's concept can illuminate, both for the moment in which the essay was written and for the present. While the worlds Rubin's essay can describe have shifted, the essay's analytic power holds.
ISSN:1064-2684
1527-9375
DOI:10.1215/10642684-2010-022