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habitus sexuado e sexuante

English translation: sexuated and sexuating habitus

13:46 Apr 27, 2023
Portuguese to English translations [PRO]
Social Sciences - Anthropology / Gender
Portuguese term or phrase: habitus sexuado e sexuante
These are two concepts by Pierre Bourdieu regarding gender, used in an academic article. The sentence:

"Falando especificamente de gênero, o autor explica o habitus sexuado e sexuante que, somatizado nos próprios tecidos, reflexos do corpo das pessoas, normatiza na psique a relação de dominação entre homens e mulheres."
Edmundo Dantez
Brazil
Local time: 18:03
English translation:sexuated and sexuating habitus
Explanation:
Habitus is the key concept in Bourdieu, but he borrows the concept of sexuation from Lacan

What is habitus in Bourdieu?
Habitus is the learned set of preferences or dispositions by which a person orients to the social world. It is a system of durable, transposable, cognitive 'schemata or structures of perception, conception and action' (Bourdieu, 2002: 27).

SEXUATION, FORMULAS OF
According to Jacques Lacan, sexuation, as distinct from biological sexuality, designates the way in which the subject is inscribed in the difference between the sexes, specifically in terms of the unconscious and castration, that is, as "inhabiting language" (Lacan, 1998, p. 80).

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https://www.encyclopedia.com/psychology/dictionaries-thesaur...

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/14778785145302...
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4 +3sexuated and sexuating habitus
Mark Robertson
2sexual habitus and sexuant
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Luciano Eduardo de Oliveira
see
liz askew

  

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sexuated and sexuating habitus


Explanation:
Habitus is the key concept in Bourdieu, but he borrows the concept of sexuation from Lacan

What is habitus in Bourdieu?
Habitus is the learned set of preferences or dispositions by which a person orients to the social world. It is a system of durable, transposable, cognitive 'schemata or structures of perception, conception and action' (Bourdieu, 2002: 27).

SEXUATION, FORMULAS OF
According to Jacques Lacan, sexuation, as distinct from biological sexuality, designates the way in which the subject is inscribed in the difference between the sexes, specifically in terms of the unconscious and castration, that is, as "inhabiting language" (Lacan, 1998, p. 80).

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Note added at 20 mins (2023-04-27 14:07:21 GMT)
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https://www.encyclopedia.com/psychology/dictionaries-thesaur...

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/14778785145302...

Mark Robertson
Local time: 23:03
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agree  Clauwolf
25 mins
  -> Obrigado
agree  philgoddard: I do think the asker could have found this out pretty quickly.
39 mins
  -> I agree. Thanks
agree  ZT-Translations
1 hr
  -> Obrigado
neutral  liz askew: Trouble is I can't find this phrase on either of your sites, or on the internet:)
2 hrs
  -> If sexuation is a word, and it apparently is, then sexuated and sexuating presumably are too.
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6 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 2/5Answerer confidence 2/5
habitus sexuado e sexuante
sexual habitus and sexuant


Explanation:
Suggestion.

Example sentence(s):
  • https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/079160359700700102
  • https://www.ejournals.eu/pliki/art/20606/
Rafael Ribeiro
Brazil
Local time: 19:03
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5 mins
Reference

Reference information:
Talvez isto ajude um pouco: https://omnilogos.com/gender-sex-and-sexual/

Luciano Eduardo de Oliveira
Brazil
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26 mins
Reference: see

Reference information:
https://era.ed.ac.uk/handle/1842/27229

The sexed and gendered body as a social institution: a critical reconstruction of two social constructionist models: Bourdieu's theory of habitus and the performative theory of social institutions

liz askew
United Kingdom
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
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