Sexual Identities by Patrick Colm Hogan

Sexual Identities by Patrick Colm Hogan

Cognitive cultural theorists have rarely taken up sex, sexuality, or gender identity. When they have done so, they have often stressed the evolutionary sources of gender differences. In Sexual Identities, Patrick Colm Hogan extends his pioneering work on identity to examine the complexities of sex, the diversity of sexuality, and the limited scope of gender. Drawing from a diverse body of literary works, Hogan illustrates a rarely drawn distinction between practical identity (the patterns in what one does, thinks, and feels) and categorical identity (how one labels oneself or is categorized by society). Building on this distinction, he offers a nuanced reformulation of the idea of social construction, distinguishing ideology, situational determination, shallow socialization, and deep socialization. He argues for a meticulous skepticism about gender differences and a view of sexuality as evolved but also contingent and highly variable. The variability of sexuality and the near absence of gender fixity--and the imperfect alignment of practical and categorical identities in both cases--give rise to the social practices that Judith Butler refers to as "regulatory regimes." Hogan goes on to explore the cognitive and affective operation of such regimes. Ultimately, Sexual Identities turns to sex and the question of how to understand transgendering in a way that respects the dignity of transgender people, without reverting to gender essentialism.

With Hogan's trademark brilliance of mind and breezy prose style he delivers the foundations we've all been looking for to really understand the miraculous and multifarious ways that we exist as situated sexual beings in the worldTurning to advances in cognitive and affective studies, Hogan adds to, deepens, and expands the major intellectual traditions that inform sexuality and gender studies. Liberating! * Frederick Luis Aldama, University Distinguished Scholar, Arts & Humanities Distinguished Professor at The Ohio State University *
Solidly and critically based on cognitive science for methodology and using literary works with historical and cultural diversity as its valuable data, Patrick Hogan's book presents a brilliant, insightful and nuanced investigation of sexuality and gender. Considering the role of affect and emotion in shaping sexual identities, among other innovations and modifications, it is a provocative and significant contribution to the burgeoning field of cognitive cultural study. * Dan Shen, Changjiang Professor of English, Peking University *

Patrick Colm Hogan is a Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor in the English Department at the University of Connecticut, where he is also affiliated with the program in Cognitive Science and the Connecticut Institute for the Brain and Cognitive Sciences. He is the author of 20 books and over 150 scholarly articles on topics in literature, cognition, emotion, and politics. His recent publications include Beauty and Sublimity: A Cognitive Aesthetics of Literature and the Arts (Cambridge University Press, 2016) and Imagining Kashmir: Emplotment and Colonialism (University of Nebraska Press, 2016).

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ISBN 13	9780190857790
ISBN 10	019085779X
Title	Sexual Identities
Author	Patrick Colm Hogan
Series	Cognition And Poetics
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Oxford University Press Inc
Year published	2018-02-01
Number of pages	296
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