Perverzní sex a normální gender. Normalizační sexuologie promlouvá o sexu a genderu

• Authors: Kateřina Lišková

Title variants

EN

PERVERSE SEX AND NORMAL GENDER. NORMALIZATION SEXOLOGY SPEAKS ABOUT SEXUALITY AND GENDER

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

The period of Normalization in Czechoslovakia is often perceived as a grey “Eastern iceberg” where life stood still and uniformity governed. My analysis of sexological discourse, particularly of texts focused on perversity, juxtaposes the normalized ethos of the period with deviant sexual subjectivities. I analyze papers and debates presented at annual sexological conferences in the 1970s and 1980s. Sexuality, especially in its non-normal/deviant forms, was revealed as unstable, a quality sought to be “rectified” through gender which was perceived as binary. The family was interrogated as a source of deviance and also as a place of redress. While sexological writings in general tend to biologize sexuality, my analysis shows that sexologists attributed social genealogy to deviance, a finding that attests to rigid social conditions during Normalization.

Keywords

EN

sexology; deviance; normalization; Czechoslovakia; sex; gender; sex customs

Discipline

• SOCIOLOGY: SOCIOLOGY

• Publisher: Institute of Sociology, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Gender, rovné příležitosti, výzkum (Gender, Equal Opportunities, Research)
• Year: 2012
• Volume: 13
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 40-49

Contributors

author

Kateřina Lišková

• FSS MU, Joštova 10, Brno, 602 00, Czech Republic