Sorainen A
Christina Institute for Women's Studies, University of Helsinki, Finland.
J Homosex. 1998;35(3-4):117-38. doi: 10.1300/J082v35n03_05.
The article discusses a number of court cases on women's same-sex fornication in the Finnish countryside in the 1950s. Based on a close reading of the minutes of the police investigations and the court records, the article shows how the notion of sexual acts between women, and the notion of certain modes of conduct as "sexual," were constructed in these proceedings. The authorities could conceive sexual relations only in terms of the "heterosexual matrix" (cf. Judith Butler); hence they assumed that the alleged sexual encounters between the women were a copy of a heterosexual sexual intercourse. As for the accused women, many of whom were connected with a Christian sect, they often insisted that the physical expressions of their mutual affection were not sexual, and they opposed the interpretation that their conduct might have anything to do with homosexuality, which they considered a pathology. As the women nevertheless often ended up repenting their conduct, they reproduced the conventional image of sexually passive "soft" woman, though perhaps partly because of strategic reasons.
这篇文章讨论了20世纪50年代芬兰农村一些关于女性同性私通的法庭案件。基于对警方调查记录和法庭档案的仔细研读，文章展示了在这些诉讼程序中，女性之间性行为的概念以及某些行为方式被界定为“性行为”的概念是如何构建起来的。当局只能依据“异性恋模式”（参见朱迪思·巴特勒的观点）来构想性关系；因此他们认定，所指控的女性之间的性接触是异性性交的翻版。至于那些被告女性，她们中的许多人与一个基督教教派有关联，她们常常坚称她们相互间情感的身体表达并非性行为，并且她们反对将她们的行为解释为可能与她们认为是一种病态的同性恋有任何关系。尽管如此，这些女性最终常常会为自己的行为忏悔，她们再现了传统观念中在性方面被动的“柔弱”女性形象，不过这也许部分是出于策略性原因。
