「セクシュアリティ」概念を／とともに考える

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  • Thinking about/with the Concept of “Sexuality”
  • 「 セクシュアリティ 」 ガイネン オ/ト トモニ カンガエル

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This paper attempts to explore possibilities of how to utilize the concept of “sexuality” in academic analyses and descriptions. From the perspective of anthropology, the author seeks a way of using the concept for the purpose of grasping the fluidity and poly-semantic nature of people’s everyday practices. 　The second section of this essay discusses the relationships between the three concepts of “sexuality,” “gender” and “sexual orientation.” By examining Gayle Rubin’s influential essay “Thinking Sex,” the author emphasizes that questions related to the concept of “sexuality” should not be limited to that of “sexual orientation” in the narrow sense of the word. 　The third section focusses on attempts to define the meaning of “sexuality” more broadly as a concept of being sexual. The author classifies two types of attempts, namely the “element enumerating definition” and a “relativistic definition,” and goes on to examine an anthropological dispute over the question whether a certain phenomenon was sexual or not, in order to point out the difficulties of deciding whose definition of “sexual” counts, that is, who the subject of that decision should be. 　Section four, then, deals with the function of concepts used within academic texts to describe people’s everyday practices. Making use of anthropologist Marilyn Strathern’s insights, who re-conceptualized anthropological research as a moment for extending the meaning of existing concepts, the author points out that both queer studies and anthropology are fields in which attempts have been made to update existing concepts and terminology in unprecedented ways. 　In the fifth and last section, the author suggests possible ways of academic thinking “together with” the concept of “sexuality.” The author argues that in order to grasp what it means to be sexual we need to constantly update and expand our conceptualization of “sexuality” and understand it as momentary, often short-termed, fluid “experiences” within oneself and between oneself and other beings.

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