Sexuality in transit: gender gaming and spaces of sexuality in late modernity

TY - JOUR

T1 - Sexuality in transit

T2 - gender gaming and spaces of sexuality in late modernity

AU - Heinskou, Marie Bruvik

PY - 2015/10/25

Y1 - 2015/10/25

N2 - Through an investigation of a reported rape, this article suggests that we conceive sexuality as a transitional object that changes and transforms depending on space and temporality. This makes sexuality difficult to grasp within specific and stable frames of gender and power analysis. Applying such an approach, the complexities of sexual assault, changing power relations and unstable narratives of gender and sexuality are illuminated. The analysis shows that the traditional divide between public and private has dissolved and that public spaces of pop culture are drawn into spaces of intimacy and thereby renegotiated and domesticated.

AB - Through an investigation of a reported rape, this article suggests that we conceive sexuality as a transitional object that changes and transforms depending on space and temporality. This makes sexuality difficult to grasp within specific and stable frames of gender and power analysis. Applying such an approach, the complexities of sexual assault, changing power relations and unstable narratives of gender and sexuality are illuminated. The analysis shows that the traditional divide between public and private has dissolved and that public spaces of pop culture are drawn into spaces of intimacy and thereby renegotiated and domesticated.

U2 - 10.1177/1363460714557661

DO - 10.1177/1363460714557661

M3 - Journal article

SN - 1363-4607

VL - 18

SP - 885

EP - 899

JO - Sexualities

JF - Sexualities

IS - 7

ER -