Diffracting Maternal and Female Midlife Sexual Assemblages in Postfeminist Popular Culture

Susan Yi Sencindiver

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Abstract

Avoiding the false alternatives of conceiving sexuality in either purely physiological or discursive terms, this chapter illuminates how the figure of diffraction is conducive for exploring sexualities as dynamic sites shaped by co-constitutive somatic and cultural intra-actions. By tracing the ways in which sexualization is contingent on the intra-active relations of a given sexual assemblage, diffraction, moreover, is employed to calibrate sexual mores in flux and how various diffractive realignments introduce other differential axes of sexual norms. This is illustrated by a case study on the diffraction patterns that emerge from the assemblage formations of contemporary maternal and midlife female sexualities in postfeminist popular culture.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationDiffractive Readings : New Materialism, Theory, Critique
EditorsKai Merten
Place of publicationLanham
PublisherRowman & Littlefield International
Publication dateJun 2021
Pages249-268
Chapter13
ISBN (Print)978-1-78661-396-7
ISBN (Electronic)978-1-78661-397-4
Publication statusPublished - Jun 2021
SeriesNew Critical Humanities

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