sexualist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sexualist
form: most sexualist
Etymology: From sexual + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: One would suggest that Iraqis have always been extraordinarily xenophobic, intolerant, racist, patriarchal, sexist, and sexualist.
ref: 2011, Brendan O'Leary, How to Get Out of Iraq with Integrity, page 211:
text: The particular ways different trans conceptualizations of space coalesce around PFZs provides a powerfully clear image for how classed, racialized and (cis) sexualist policies and powers impact trans communities in DC.
ref: 2014, Jin Haritaworn, Adi Kuntsman, Silvia Posocco, Queer Necropolitics, page 180:
text: Ours is a sexualist society," Evan began. "In particular, we have come to believe in constraints on the love which can exist between women and woman, and men and men. ..."
ref: 2015, Marc Solomon, Winning Marriage:
glosses: Engaging in sexualism; discriminating based on someone's sexuality.
examples: text: In a sexualist regime, society would be properly organized to support its reproductive resources as well as its productive forces.
ref: 1978, Marilyn J. Boxer, Jean Helen Quataert, Socialist Women, page 89:
text: That socialist program promoted class stuggle, while a sexualist program proposed to resolve the struggle between the sexes.
ref: 2018, Karen Offen, Debating the Woman Question in the French Third Republic, 1870-1920:
glosses: A proponent of sexualism: advocating preferential treatment of women because of their role in reproducing the species
examples: text: When Linnaeus' sexualist system of botany initially became known in England, there were detractors who charged that Linnæus and his botanical classification system were obscene.
ref: 2001, Spencer & Collen, The Eighteenth-century Novel - Volumes 1-7, page 133:
text: Even Robert Thornton, who defends the sexualist system in his introduction to New Illustration of the Sexual System of Linnaeus, inadvertently reveals botany's fraught reputation as unmanly and nonanalytical: "by this analytical mode of studying Botany we rise far superior to the Contempt which is commonly cast on this lovely Science, by those who are ignorant of our Procedure... it must be allowed on every side to be a manly sort of Puzzle, as amusing as it is instructive."
ref: 2003, Amy King, Bloom: The Botanical Vernacular in the English Novel, page 57:
text: By the mid-nineteenth century, the international careers of botanists, the visibility of illustrations and botanical texts point to a broad readership and familiarity with sexualist botany on a European scale.
ref: 2020, Felicia McCarren, One Dead at the Paris Opera Ballet: La Source 1866-2014, page 62:
glosses: Pertaining to Linnaeus' sexual system of botanical classification.
examples: text: Sexual discourse too becomes entirely phantasmatic when sex itself, the critical reduction of moral and social mystification that it used to be, becomes the mode of rationalisation of a problem situated at the level of the total symbolic destruction of social relations, an examination of the sexualist discourse contributes to locking away under a security code.
ref: 1917, Alfred Adler, The Neurotic constitution, page 141:
text: Note that while Freud does not maintain that all dreams are of sexual motivation, in the particular case of the psychogenic nightmare he holds uncompromisingly to the sexualist interpretation.
ref: 1941, Roland Dalbiez, Exposition, page 216:
text: See also La Grasserie (1904:227), who argued that the languages of uncivilized societies lack sex-gender systems "precisely because of that extreme easiness of sexual relations" among their speakers. Under conditions of promiscuity, the "sexualist idea" would be of relatively little power or interest.
ref: 2014, Susan Gal, Kathryn Woolard, Languages and Publics: The Making of Authority:
text: Sexualist reductionism is as bad as any other kind. If not worse. When I had a hysterectomy, I worried about my writing, because sexualist reductionism had scared me.
ref: 2018, Ursula K. Le Guin, Dreams Must Explain Themselves:
glosses: Based on or deriving from sexuality.
examples: text: Conservatives, as I am using the word, support hegemonic capitalism while protecting a "learned ignorance" of their necessary resultant support for racialist and sexualist social structures.
ref: 1996, Urban Anthropology and Studies of Cultural Systems and World Economic Development, page 199:
text: My interpretation, non inconsistent with that of Orobio de Castro, is that in the sexualist perspective of western societies, the sex of women is, above all, a 'no-sex male'.
ref: 2004, Lisa Adkins, Diana Leonard, Sex In Question: French Feminism, page 48:
text: The reasons for women discrimination in Islam are mainly sexist, sexualist and sensuous: the men do not have to look at a woman ahead of them as this might make the men aroused. Imam Nawawi is credited to have justified the sexualist, ghostly, censored and second-class allocation of women Islamic preachers as follows: "If a woman leads a man in a congregational prayer, the prayer is invalid. As for her prayer, and the prayer of the women praying with her, it is sound."
ref: 2012, Steve Esomba, Wall Streets Infected By Arab Spring, page 41:
text: In short, Manila was able to steer clear of the racialist and sexualist dominant discourse that haunted the community.
ref: 2018, The Language of Bion: A Dictionary of Concepts, page P.C. Sandler:
glosses: Sexist.