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# Tagged “sexual”

### [Body Erotic – John Boswell’s History Of Eurochristian Sexuality And The Case For Transcendental Somatics, Part 3 (Kieryn Wurts)](/religioustheory/posts/body-erotic-john-boswells-history-of-eurochristian-sexuality-and-the-case-for-transcendental-somatics-part-3-kieryn-wurts/)

Kieryn E. Wurts

The following is the last of a three-part series.The first can be found here, the second here. Essentialist and social constructionist discourses on sexuality

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### [Body Erotic – John Boswell’s History Of Eurochristian Sexuality And The Case For Transcendental Somatics, Part 2 (Kieryn Wurts)](/religioustheory/posts/body-erotic-john-boswells-history-of-eurochristian-sexuality-and-the-case-for-transcendental-somatics-part-2-kieryn-wurts/)

Kieryn E. Wurts

The following is the second of a three-part series. The first can be found here. Social constructionist theory developed as an answer to essentialist theories

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### [Body Erotic – John Boswell’s History Of Eurochristian Sexuality And The Case For Transcendental Somatics, Part 1 (Kieryn Wurts)](/religioustheory/posts/body-erotic-john-boswells-history-of-eurochristian-sexuality-and-the-case-for-transcendental-somatics-part-1-kieryn-wurts/)

Kieryn E. Wurts

John Boswell (1947-94) was a Yale philologist who published two major studies betweeen 1980 and 1994 which, considered together, constitute an extended and

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### [Sexual Difference And The Vatican – A Lacanian Response, Part 3 (Melissa Conroy)](/religioustheory/posts/sexual-difference-and-the-vatican-a-lacanian-response-part-3-melissa-conroy/)

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

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### [Sexual Difference And The Vatican – A Lacanian Response, Part 2 (Melissa Conroy)](/religioustheory/posts/sexual-difference-and-the-vatican-a-lacanian-response-part-2-melissa-conroy/)

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

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### [Sexual Difference And The Vatican – A Lacanian Response, Part 1 (Melissa Conroy)](/religioustheory/posts/sexual-difference-and-the-vatican-a-lacanian-response-part-1-melissa-conroy/)

Melissa Conroy

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

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### [Review – French Perceptions of Muslim Sexuality (Trevor Wolff)](/religioustheory/posts/review-french-perceptions-of-muslim-sexuality-trevor-wolff/)

Trevor Wolff

Mack, Mehammed Amadeus. Sexagon: Muslims, France, and the Sexualization of National Culture. New York City NY: Fordham University Press, 2017 It highlights

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