What do we know about early modern sex? And how do we know it? How, when, and why does sex become history? InThinking Sex with the Early Moderns, Valerie Traub addresses these questions and, in doing ...so, reorients the ways in which historians and literary critics, feminists and queer theorists approach sexuality and its history. Her answers offer interdisciplinary strategies for confronting the difficulties of making sexual knowledge.
Based on the premise that producing sexual knowledge is difficult because sex itself is often inscrutable,Thinking Sex with the Early Modernsleverages the notions of opacity and impasse to explore barriers to knowledge about sex in the past. Traub argues that the obstacles in making sexual history can illuminate the difficulty of knowing sexuality. She also argues that these impediments themselves can be adopted as a guiding principle of historiography: sex may be good to think with, not because it permits us access but because it doesn't.
Este estudio se propone abordar la analítica del poder de Michel Foucault desde el punto de vista de su elaboración metodológica, con particular atención a su crítica del discurso filosófico-jurídico ...de los modernos. Indaga los desplazamientos que el autor lleva a cabo a partir de los análisis de La volonté de savoir (1976), para mostrar de qué manera la analítica de la sexualidad se constituye como el paradigma de la analítica foucaultiana del poder.
The genetic systems of Paspalum species have not been extensively studied. We analyzed the ploidy, reproductive mode, mating system, and fertility of four Paspalum species—Paspalum durifolium, ...Paspalum ionanthum, Paspalum regnellii, and Paspalum urvillei. An analysis of 378 individuals from 20 populations of northeastern Argentina was conducted. All populations of the four Paspalum species were pure tetraploid and had a sexual and stable reproductive mode. However, some populations of P. durifolium and P. ionanthum showed low levels of apospory. Populations of P. durifolium and P. ionanthum had low seed sets under self-pollination but were fertile under open pollination, showing that self-incompatibility likely caused self-sterility. In contrast, populations of P. regnellii or P. urvillei showed no evidence of apospory, and seed sets in both self- and open pollination conditions were high, suggesting that they are self-compatible due to the absence of pollen–pistil molecular incompatibility mechanisms. The evolutionary origin of the four Paspalum species could explain these differences. This study supplies valuable insights into the genetic systems of Paspalum species, which could have implications for their conservation and management.
The Deer Park received more criticism than praise for its sexual descriptions and several critics saw it as a novel "about man and sex," but the focus of Mailer's concern in the narrative is not the ...problem of sexuality but that of self and gender, especially the sexuality of the characters. Relationships in the novel demonstrate a pursuit of selfhood and happiness and the plot reveals different life choices and gender quandaries of women in the course of their pursuit of selfhood. Elena pursues an understanding of her identity within a context of complications and her encounters are universal. Hence, "her problems were everyone's problems."
La sexualidad es parte de la persona y el conocimiento que se logre adquirir durante la adolescencia es de vital importancia a lo largo de la vida en la toma de decisiones responsables, así como en ...el disfrute saludable y placentero. El objetivo de esta investigación es indagar sobre los conocimientos de sexualidad adquiridos por el estudiantado de Estudios Generales de la Universidad de Costa Rica, Sede Occidente, que han sido abordados en la educación secundaria de manera formativa por medio del Programa de Afectividad y Sexualidad Integral que forma parte de la materia de Ciencias y posteriormente de Psicología del Ministerio de Educación Pública. La investigación tiene un enfoque cuantitativo, para la recolección de la información se aplicó un cuestionario conformado por escalas de Likert y contó con la participación de 171 individuos de una población total de 600 personas, que corresponde al total del estudiantado. Los resultados indican que hay confusión en terminología básica, además, desconocimiento en infecciones de transmisión sexual (ITS) y métodos anticonceptivos. Concluye la investigación que hay prioridad en evitar un embarazo, sin dimensionar las consecuencias de una ITS, también la necesidad de continuar con el abordaje de estas temáticas en la educación terciaria, así como en diferentes espacios que comparten los adolescentes.
Background and Objectives: This study aims to compare the neuromuscular structure of the vagina in women with posterior vaginal wall prolapse with the neuromuscular structure of the vagina in women ...without prolapse, to determine the difference, and to demonstrate the role of neuromuscular structure in the physiopathology of prolapse. Materials and Methods: In this prospective study, women aged between 40 and 75 years who had not undergone any vaginal surgery and had not undergone any abdominal prolapse surgery were included. Thirty-one women diagnosed with rectocele on examination were included in the study group. Thirty-one patients who underwent vaginal intervention and hysterectomy for reasons other than rectocele (colposcopy, conization, etc.) without anterior or posterior wall prolapse were included in the control group. Biopsy material was obtained from the epithelium of the posterior wall of the vagina, including the fascia that fits the Ap point. Immunohistochemical staining with Protein Gene Product 9.5 and smooth muscle α-actin was performed in the pathology laboratory. The epithelial thickness measurement and smooth muscle density parameters obtained with these immunohistochemical stainings were compared between the two groups. The collected data were analyzed using the SPSS 23 package program. p values less than 0.05 were considered statistically significant. Results: In the control group, muscle thickness and the number of nerves per mmsup.2 of fascia were statistically significantly higher than in the study group (p < 0.05). Conclusions: We found that smooth muscle tissue and the number of nerves per mmsup.2 of fascia were decreased in posterior vaginal wall prolapse compared to the general population. Based on the correlation coefficients, age was the parameter that most affected the degree of prolapse, followed by parity, number of live births, and number of vaginal deliveries.
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