Category: Theoretical Sexology

Jan Bergstra & Laurens BuijsAmsterdam Gender Theory Research Team In formal gender theory (FGT), we work on and with the notion of formal gender. This is a notion that can have different meanings in different versions of FGT. Any concrete example of a concept of formal gender is complicated because formal gender must explicitly have…

Jan Bergstra & Laurens BuijsAmsterdam Gender Theory Research Team We view sexual orientation (SO) as a main topic in theoretical sexology. We want to try to discuss the topic of SO “bottom-up” in a series of blogs (see also AGTRT-BT1). In this blog, we look at how we can arrive at different definitions of sexual…

Jan Bergstra & Laurens BuijsAmsterdam Gender Theory Research Team We view sexual orientation (SO) as a main topic in theoretical sexology. We want to try to discuss the topic of SO “bottom-up” in a series of blogs (see also AGTRT-BT1). Read more about our research on sexual orientation:Sexual orientation: general principles Today, references to ST…

Jan Bergstra & Laurens BuijsAmsterdam Gender Theory Research TeamPhoto: Queen’s University From the now famous publication Beyond Sexual Orientation: Integrating Gender/Sex and Diverse Sexualities via Sexual Configurations Theory (2015) by Sari van Anders (Queen’s University), we extract the following excerpt from the introduction: “Sexual orientation is largely used as the primary way to describe a…

Jan Bergstra & Laurens BuijsAmsterdam Gender Theory Research Team Structure of this blog 1. Introduction Sexual orientation (SO) is a central topic of sexology, and we see questions about the definition and applicability of SO as central to theoretical sexology(TS). Our research team will in the near future address the question of how the gender…