Sexology is the scientific study of human sexuality,including human sexual interests,behaviors,and functions. The term sexology does not generally refer to the non-scientific study of sexuality,such as social criticism.
Gender studies is an interdisciplinary academic field devoted to analysing gender identity and gendered representation. Gender studies originated in the field of women's studies,concerning women,feminism,gender,and politics. The field now overlaps with queer studies and men's studies. Its rise to prominence,especially in Western universities after 1990,coincided with the rise of deconstruction.
Queer theory is a term used in various disciplines including literary analysis,philosophy,politics,and other fields of cultural study. It functions essentially as a perspective that questions cisgender and heterosexual identities being perceived as the standard and provides a thesis that revisits that field with a "queer" approach.
The Kinsey scale,also called the Heterosexual–Homosexual Rating Scale,is used in research to describe a person's sexual orientation based on one's experience or response at a given time. The scale typically ranges from 0,meaning exclusively heterosexual,to a 6,meaning exclusively homosexual. In both the male and female volumes of the Kinsey Reports,an additional grade,listed as "X",indicated "no socio-sexual contacts or reactions" (asexuality). The reports were first published in Sexual Behavior in the Human Male (1948) by Alfred Kinsey,Wardell Pomeroy,and others,and were also prominent in the complementary work Sexual Behavior in the Human Female (1953).
Feminist archaeology employs a feminist perspective in interpreting past societies. It often focuses on gender,but also considers gender in tandem with other factors,such as sexuality,race,or class. Feminist archaeology has critiqued the uncritical application of modern,Western norms and values to past societies. It is additionally concerned with increasing the representation of women in the discipline of archaeology,and reducing androcentric bias within the field.
Gayle S. Rubin is an American cultural anthropologist best known as an activist and theorist of sex and gender politics. She has written on a range of subjects including feminism,sadomasochism,prostitution,pedophilia,pornography and lesbian literature,as well as anthropological studies and histories of sexual subcultures,especially focused in urban contexts. Her 1984 essay "Thinking Sex" is widely regarded as a founding text of gay and lesbian studies,sexuality studies,and queer theory. She is an associate professor of anthropology and women's studies at the University of Michigan.
Bisexuality is a romantic or sexual attraction or behavior toward both males and females,or to more than one gender. It may also be defined to include romantic or sexual attraction to people regardless of their sex or gender identity,which is also known as pansexuality.
William Leap is an emeritus professor of anthropology at American University and an affiliate professor in the Women's,Gender and Sexuality Studies Program at Florida Atlantic University. He works in the overlapping fields of language and sexuality studies and queer linguistics,and queer historical linguistics.
Ara Wilsonis a university professor and author.
Gayatri Gopinath is an associate professor of Social and Cultural Analysis and director of the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality at New York University. Gopinath is perhaps best known for her book Impossible Desires:Queer Diasporas and South Asian Public Cultures,which received article-length reviews in a number of journals.
Jigna Desai is a Professor in the Department of Gender,Women and Sexuality Studies and Asian American Studies,currently at the University of Minnesota. She is a writer,teacher,mentor,artist,and engaged researcher whose scholarship crosses many fields of study including transnational feminism,Asian American Studies,queer studies,postcolonial feminism,critical disability studies,critical youth studies,feminist media studies,critical ethnic studies,and critical university studies. She has also written extensively on issues of racial and gender disparities and social justice.
In 2004,Jane Bennett co-edited Jacketed Women:Qualitative Research Methodologies on Sexualities and Gender in Africa with Charmaine Pereira. Bennett has a BA from the University of Natal,MPhil and EdD from Columbia University. She has an academic background in linguistics,literature,sociology,and feminist theory.
Zethu Matebeni is a sociologist,activist,writer,documentary film maker,Professor and South Africa Research Chair in Sexualities,Genders and Queer Studies at the University of Fort Hare. She has held positions at the University of the Western Cape and has been senior researcher at the Institute for Humanities in Africa (HUMA) at UCT. She has been a visiting Professor Yale University and has received a number of research fellowships including those from African Humanities Program,Ford Foundation,the Fogarty International Centre and the National Research Foundation.
V. Spike Peterson is a professor of international relations in the School of Government and Public Policy at the University of Arizona,and affiliated faculty in the Department of Gender and Women's Studies,the Institute for LGBT Studies,International Studies,Human Rights Practice Program,and the Center for Latin American Studies. Her cross-disciplinary research and teaching are focused on international relations theory,gender and politics,global political economy,and contemporary social theory. Her recent publications examine the sex/gender and racial dynamics of global inequalities and insecurities and develop critical histories of ancient and modern state formation and Anglo-European imperialism in relation to marriage,migration,citizenship and nationalism. Peterson is "considered to be among the most internationally important senior scholars currently working at the intersections of International Relations,Feminist and Queer Theory,and of International Political Economy."
Juana María Rodríguez is a Cuban-American professor of Ethnic Studies,Gender and Women's Studies,and Performance Studies at the University of California,Berkeley. Her scholarly writing in queer theory,critical race theory,and performance studies highlights the intersection of race,gender,sexuality and embodiment in constructing subjectivity.
Ellen Lewin is an American author,anthropologist,and academic. Lewin,a lesbian,focuses her work on areas of motherhood,sexuality,and reproduction. Lewin is a professor of anthropology at the University of Iowa. She is a recipient of the Ruth Benedict Prize.
Jenny L. Davis is an American linguist,anthropologist,and poet. She is an Associate Professor of Anthropology,American Indian Studies,and Gender &Women's Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign where she is the director of the American Indian Studies Program. Her research is on contemporary Indigenous languages and identity,focusing on Indigenous language revitalization and Indigenous gender and sexuality,especially within the Two-Spirit movement.
Scholarship on nationalism and gender explores the processes by which gender affects and is impacted by the development of nationalism. Sometimes referred to as "gendered nationalism," gender and nationalism describes the phenomena whereby conceptions of the state or nation,including notions of citizenship,sovereignty,or national identity contribute to or arise in relation to gender roles.
Lucinda Ramberg is an American anthropologist whose work focuses on gender,sexuality,religion and health. She was awarded multiple prizes in 2015 for her first book,Given to the Goddess:South Indian Devadasis and the Sexuality of Religion. Ramberg is associate professor in anthropology and director of graduate studies in the Feminist,Gender,and Sexuality Studies program at Cornell University.
Evelyn Blackwood is an American anthropologist whose research focuses on gender,sexuality,identity,and kinship. She was awarded the Ruth Benedict Prize in 1999,2007 and 2011. Blackwood is an emerita professor of anthropology at Purdue University.
