Oct 4, 2012
"sex" is not a free-floating signifier available for any social project that comes along. It is structured, embedded, and motivated...the sign of sex is always simultaneously produced anew and motivated by the internal logics of the sign systems within which it is made to signify and the social contexts within which it gains coherent cultural meanings
Elliston, Deborah. "Anthropology's Queer Future: Feminist Lessons From Tahiti and Its Islands." Out in Theory. The Emergence of Lesbian and Gay Anthropology (2002): p 306