Mendès-Leite R
GREH-CEAQ/Université René Descartes-Paris V.
J Homosex. 1993;25(1-2):17-30. doi: 10.1300/J082v25n01_02.
The goal of this article is to contribute to the elaboration of a socio-anthropology of the sexualities in an epistemological perspective by setting forward some theoretical guidelines I have been adopting in my present research project. I propose the notion of "culture of sexualities" like a system that focuses on the socio-cultural and historical construction of sexualities in relation with the global culture's internal logic in each given society. It includes biological sex, social sex, gender problematics, sexual identities, sexual roles, sexual orientations, and social stereotypes in its inter-relations and in connection with social and historical changing. I also give attention to the relations between the "sexual" and the "non sexual" sociabilities ("homosocial" or "heterosocial") and to the importance of sexualities' social imaginary in the elaboration of a relativist and constructivist approach.
本文的目的是通过提出一些我在当前研究项目中一直采用的理论指导方针，从认识论的角度为性取向的社会人类学的阐述做出贡献。我提出“性取向文化”这一概念，它是一个系统，关注性取向在每个特定社会中与全球文化内部逻辑相关的社会文化和历史建构。它包括生物性别、社会性别、性别问题、性身份、性角色、性取向以及社会刻板印象，这些因素相互关联，并与社会和历史变迁相关。我还关注“性”与“非性”社交（“同性社交”或“异性社交”）之间的关系，以及性取向的社会想象在阐述相对主义和建构主义方法中的重要性。
