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THE CONSTRUCTION OF SEXUALITY AND TOLERANCE

Inga Tomić-Koludrović ; Filozofski fakultet, Zadar

Sažetak

The analysis of relationships between the sexes can be the topic
of different theoretical approaches. In this text the ethnomethodological
approach toward the construction of sexuality
is observed as an indicator of tolerance on both micro- and
macro-Ievels. The principal assertion is that sex is a social construction
which is soci ally produced and individually supplemented.
Since there is an unexpressed obligation to be a woman or
man, and due to the fact that tolerance towards something third
or fourth is extremely low, even transsexuals feel compelled to
prove their new sexual identity daily. Especially in an androcentrically
structured reality with the patriarchate as a sexual construction,
everyday life is determined by division and injustice. Inherited
from formally egalitarian, but truly patriarchal, socialist times,
the patriarchate in Croatia has soon after the establishment of the
democratic order become even better reinforced by means of the
pre-modern war paradigm. The war, still under way in Croatia, is
contributing to political and moral rigidity, which is not only an obstacle
towards a more tolerant relation to multiple sexuality, but
also to processes of postindustrial modernization of the whole
Croatian society.

Ključne riječi

Hrčak ID:

32146

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/32146

Datum izdavanja:

1.3.1996.

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