Sexuality and Religion

Sexual Difference And The Vatican – A Lacanian Response, Part 3 (Melissa Conroy)

The following is the second of a three-part series. The first can be found here, the second here. Likewise, Teresa de Lauretis argues that gender is best understood as “the representation of a relation, that of belonging to a class, a group, a category.”[1] Sexual difference is not the result of the difference between male […]

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Sexual Difference And The Vatican – A Lacanian Response, Part 2 (Melissa Conroy)

The following is the second of a three-part series. The first can be found here. The current medical paradigm works to suppress and erase these bodies by allowing them to exist only after medical correction and subsequent conformity to the two-sex system. Judith Butler has observed that bodies are only allowed to “live within the productive […]

Sexuality and Religion

Sexual Difference And The Vatican – A Lacanian Response, Part 1 (Melissa Conroy)

The following is the first of a three-part series. Introduction In June 2019 the Congregation for Catholic Education released a document entitled “Male and Female He Created Them: Towards a Path of Dialogue on the Question of Gender Theory in Education.” Written on behalf of the Congregation for Catholic Education the document purports to “guide […]