English citations of sex

  • a. 1631, John Donne, Songs & Sonnets, "Primrose", line 61:
    ...Should she
    Be more then woman, she would get above
    All thought of sexe, and think to move
    My heart to study her, and not to love.
  • a. 1643, William Cartwright, Siedge, iii, vi:
    ...My Soul's
    As Male as yours; there's no Sex in the mind.

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  • 1993, Judith Butler, Professor Judith Butler, Bodies that Matter: On the Discursive Limits of "sex", Psychology Press (→ISBN), page 96:
    [] gendered punishment, [] of adject homosexuality, the feminized fag and the phallicized dyke; the Lacanian scheme presumes that the terror over occupying either of these positions is what compels the assumption of a sexed position within language, a sexed position that is sexed by virtue of its heterosexual positioning, []
  • 2007, Laura L. O'Toole, Jessica R. Schiffman, Margie L. Kiter Edwards, Gender Violence: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, NYU Press (→ISBN), page 335:
    This is most clearly seen in relation to the different meanings ascribed to male and female bodies engaging in similar sexual behavior—it is implicit in the term stud that the body is sexed male, and it is implicit in the term slut that the body is [sexed female].
  • 2012, Penny Florence, Sexed Universals in Contemporary Art, Simon and Schuster (→ISBN):
    And its inquiry into the universal is sexed. In connecting this painting to the boys' sex, it is noteworthy that the boys are not strongly marked as male, which is generally consistent with Matisse's style.They inhabit a transitional time.
  • 2013, Arthur A. Joyce, Polity and Ecology in Formative Period Coastal Oaxaca, University Press of Colorado (→ISBN), page 269:
    Stephen (2002) also described the muxe as a category for berdache or hijra-like individuals in isthmian Zapotec communities who constitute a “third gender” by participating in feminine activities despite being sexed male.
  • 2018, Ian Davies, Li-Ching Ho, Dina Kiwan, Carla L. Peck, Andrew Peterson, Edda Sant, Yusef Waghid, The Palgrave Handbook of Global Citizenship and Education, Springer (→ISBN), page 601:
    How are citizenships gendered/sexed? The text shows how State politics and religious dogmatism shape socialisation and schooling. It demonstrates how family lives are regulated, and []
  • 2020, Kate Singer, Ashley Cross, Suzanne Barnett, Material Transgressions: Beyond Romantic Bodies, Genders, Things, Oxford University Press (→ISBN), page 14:
    Recall the twentieth-century concern about whether a text is sexed: what kind of body is a text? What kind of text is a body? As one example, see Toril Moi, Sexual/Textual Politics []
  • 1999, Frederick Charles Moten, Ensemble: The Improvisation of the Whole in Baraka, Wittgenstein, Heidegger and Derrida, page 78:
    In the cases of Baraka and Heidegger the opening of the question of Being's meaning, truth, essence, is sexed in a way to which they are blind though they see quite clearly that opening's racial, cultural, spiritual, linguistic and aesthetic determinations.
  • 2013, Moya Lloyd, Judith Butler: From Norms to Politics, John Wiley & Sons (→ISBN):
    [] a woman — an idea that Butler will take up — she is ultimately prepared to assume, Butler contends, that each individual is sexed at birth and, thus, that 'being sexed and being human are coextensive and simultaneous' (GT: 142).
  • 2020, Marion Grau, Jason Wyman, What is Constructive Theology?: Histories, Methodologies, and Perspectives, Bloomsbury Publishing (→ISBN)
    This approach often presumes an ontology of the body that is sexed and gendered in a universal, binary male–female fashion. For example, one of the most popularly known works in this vein is John Paul II's collection of teachings on ...
  • 2016, John Bradbury, Susannah Cornwall, Thinking Again About Marriage: Key theological questions, SCM Press (→ISBN), page 114:
    There are many ways humans differ from God, so it is not that it is insignificant to God that any given human is sexed – but it cannot be fundamental to God's relationship with an individual how they are sexed, be it female, male or other.