Sexing Politics: Queer Subjectivity and Sex As Corporeal Dissent (original) (raw)
How can we think sex politically? Sex is too often relegated to the sphere of the private. In the public domain it often topic of jokes, or legal and medical discourses. Sex is a crucial component of life, not only biological, but social and political as well. Willingly or unwillingly it underlies social interactions, and it is socialised to do so in particular ways that are not devoid of power. From a feminist perspective, heterosexual penetrative sex has historically marked women as passive socio-political actors and men as active ones. This socialisation of sex can be understood to be at the core of unequal gender relations. I will argue that thinking sex politically is a step in the direction of subverting these gender relations. I will try to tackle questions about the metaphysics and phenomenology of sex to excavate a sexual politics of resistance. I will put forward the queer subject as the subjectivity to enact this political project.
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