Practicing Sex

IF 0.1 Q4 CULTURAL STUDIES

Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies Pub Date : 2020-01-28 DOI:10.1353/jem.2019.0013

Joseph Gamble

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abstract:This essay approaches "sexuality" as encompassing both sex acts and the knowledge relations they entail. Concatenating these two concepts as a hyphenated sexual-logistical knowledge, this essay argues that attending simultaneously to the phenomenology, epistemology, and pedagogy of sex acts—to what bodies do, what they have to know to do it, and how they acquire this knowledge—will enable scholars to develop more nuanced analyses of the quotidian sexual relations of historical actors. Reading Thomas Nashe's "The Choise of Valentines" (1592), Thomas Carew's "A Rapture" (1640), the anonymous The School of Venus (1680), and the medical treatise Aristotle's Masterpiece (1684/90), this essay demonstrates that the production of sexual knowledge is not merely a discursive phenomenon operating at the macro-level of various disciplinary institutions but also a key part of the phenomenology of sexual practice. Shifting the focus from what sex meant to how sex was practiced, this essay argues, allows scholars to ask new questions about how sex threaded itself through the daily lives of early modern subjects. Focusing primarily on representations of women guiding men's penises into their vaginas, this essay also brings a queer feminist perspective to a supposedly normative sex act.

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练习性爱

摘要：本文认为“性”包含性行为及其所包含的知识关系。本文将这两个概念联系起来，作为一个连字符的性逻辑知识，认为同时关注性行为的现象学、认识论和教育学——关注身体做什么，他们必须知道做什么，以及他们如何获得这些知识——将使学者们能够对历史行为者的日常性关系进行更细致的分析。阅读托马斯·纳舍的《情人合唱团》（1592）、托马斯·卡鲁的《说唱》（1640）、匿名的《维纳斯学派》（1680）和医学论文《亚里士多德的杰作》（1684/90），本文论证了性知识的产生不仅是一种在各学科机构宏观层面运作的话语现象，而且是性实践现象学的重要组成部分。这篇文章认为，将焦点从性的含义转移到性是如何实践的，这让学者们可以提出新的问题，即性是如何贯穿早期现代主体的日常生活的。本文主要关注女性引导男性阴茎进入阴道的表现，也为所谓的规范性行为带来了酷儿女权主义的视角。

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