Intimate Exposure: A Feminist Phenomenology of Sexual Experience and Sexual Suppression

IF 16.4 1区化学 Q1 CHEMISTRY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

Accounts of Chemical Research Pub Date : 2023-03-29 DOI:10.1017/hyp.2023.10

S. Hoff

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Abstract

Abstract Accounts of sexual experience, sexual oppression, and sexual violation, if they are not to lend support to the problems they are invoked to address, require the foundation of a phenomenological description of the character of experience. Relying on Maurice Merleau-Ponty, I aim to provide this foundation, arguing that sexual experience is a domain not of detached, individual autonomy but of intrinsic susceptibility and exposure to the world. My description of sexual experience is intended to reveal the immanent norms that sexuality projects and thereby to critique ways of inhabiting experience that disavow what is revealed in that description. The first section discerns three ambiguities that characterize our experience in Merleau-Ponty's notion of “flesh”: that between materiality and meaning, self and others, and self and world. The second section offers a phenomenology of sexual experience based on these ambiguities. The third section, on sexual oppression and suppression, identifies two stereotypical ways in which they are evaded: what I call the stances of “withdrawal from” and “control of” sexuality as flesh. Finally, the fourth section reveals the shortcomings of the legal-juridical domain in navigating our status as flesh, and warns against the proliferation of its terms, specifically the norm of consent.

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亲密暴露:性经验与性压抑的女性主义现象学

对性经验、性压迫和性侵犯的描述，如果不支持它们被用来解决的问题，就需要对经验特征进行现象学描述。依靠莫里斯·梅洛-庞蒂，我的目标是提供这一基础，认为性体验不是一个独立的、个人自主的领域，而是一个内在的易感性和对世界的暴露。我对性经验的描述旨在揭示性投射的内在规范，从而批判否认描述中所揭示的居住经验的方式。第一部分从梅洛-庞蒂的“肉体”概念中发现了三个模糊性，即物质性与意义、自我与他人、自我与世界之间的模糊性。第二部分提供了基于这些歧义的性经验现象学。第三部分，关于性压迫和性压制，确定了两种逃避的刻板方式：我所说的“退出”和“控制”性作为肉体的立场。最后，第四节揭示了法律司法领域在引导我们作为肉体的地位方面的缺陷，并警告其条款，特别是同意规范的泛滥。

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Accounts of Chemical Research 化学-化学综合

CiteScore

31.40

自引率

1.10%

发文量

312

审稿时长

2 months

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