Race and the Integrity of the Line

IF 1.2 Q2 CULTURAL STUDIES Social Text Pub Date : 2021-09-01 DOI:10.1215/01642472-9034404
Amber Jamilla Musser
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It is rare to find visual representations of female sexual pleasure in sexological treatises. Robert Latou Dickinson's Atlas of Human Sex Anatomy (1932) uses illustrations of sexual response to avoid making his text sensuous or pornographic. Like the charts in William Masters and Virginia Johnson's Human Sexual Response (1966), these drawings are carefully nestled between statistics and physiological summaries to embed them within the realm of the scientific and pedagogical. However, both are presumed to be racially unmarked. This article shows how blackness disrupts visual representations of pleasure and femininity while theorizing how the line functions as a way to maintain a norm. Against this, the potential of brown jouissance emerges via the zigzag style of contemporary Filipino artist Jevijoe Vitug. In his portrait, a glimpse of racialized, sensual excess emerges.
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种族和路线的完整性
在性学专著中很少能找到女性性快感的视觉表现。罗伯特·拉图·狄金森的《人类性解剖学图集》(1932)使用了性反应的插图,以避免使他的文字变得感性或色情。就像William Masters和Virginia Johnson的《人类性反应》(Human Sexual Response, 1966)中的图表一样,这些图表被小心翼翼地夹在统计数据和生理总结之间,将它们嵌入科学和教学领域。然而,两者都被认为是没有种族标记的。这篇文章展示了黑色如何破坏快乐和女性气质的视觉表现,同时理论化了这条线如何作为一种维持规范的方式。与此相反,棕色快感的潜力通过菲律宾当代艺术家Jevijoe Vitug的曲折风格显现出来。在他的肖像中,一种种族化的、感官过剩的一瞥浮现出来。
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