Introduction to Sexual Studies

Running head: INTRODUCTION TO SEXUAL STUDIES
Introduction to Sexual Studies
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INTRODUCTION TO SEXUAL STUDIES1
Sexuality by Jeffrey Weeks, 2017
The pages 91-116 of the book deals with the sexual activities in the society, as well as
the sexuality of the male and the female gender. The gender defines sexuality since the
performing identities of “Masculinity” and “Femininity” form the social divides. The author
says that the gender and sexuality are the underlying truths of the human nature. The author
also argues that the sexuality is not something that is inborn, but is acquires and they are
socially organized. He deals with a psychoanalytic theory which talks of the unconscious
sphere of mind, that represses the sexual desires of a person, and has a conflict of ideas and
fantasies.
Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Malaysia by Meredith L. Weiss, 2015
The pages 361-373 deals with the sexual citizenship of the people of Malaysia and the
sexual rights of the people. The Malaysian LGBTs that are identified as lesbian, gay, bisexual
and transgender are found to be resisting the human rights since the politics react against the.
Thus the author here discusses about the sexual citizenship that takes into consideration
different frameworks of conflict with the help of which the marginalized people of the society
demand their rights. The author talks of Sexual independence which they call as “Seksualiti
Merdeka”. The author here attempts to inflict the knowledge of the subjects who have already
refused the sexual rights and the activists’ attempts to represent them.
Chinese Male Homosexualities: Memba, Tongzhi and Golden Boy by Travis S.K. Kong ,
2010
The Pages 94- 119 of this book deals with the discourse of the modern citizenship.
With the relation to the socio-political and cultural development in Hong Kong, the author
here talks of how the men of Hong Kong are gay. He also discusses how these men through
the practices and by forming intimate relationships with the other men challenge the