Sexuality in transit – gender gaming and spaces of sexuality in late modernity

Through an investigation of a reported rape, this article suggests that we conceive sexuality as a transitional object that changes and transforms depending on space and temporality. This makes sexuality difficult to grasp within specific and stable frames of gender and power analysis. Applying such an approach, the complexities of sexual assault, changing power relations and unstable narratives of gender and sexuality are illuminated. The analysis shows that the traditional divide between public and private has dissolved and that public spaces of pop culture are drawn into spaces of intimacy and thereby renegotiated and domesticated.

Marie Bruvik Heinskou: "Sexuality in transit – gender gaming and spaces of sexuality in late modernity", Sexualities, 2015