KONSTRUKCIJA SPOLNOSTI I TOLERANCIJA
THE CONSTRUCTION OF SEXUALITY AND TOLERANCE

Summary/Abstract: The analysis of relationships between the sexes can be the topic of different theoretical approaches. In this text the ethnomethodological approach toward the construction of sexuality is observed as an indicator of tolerance on both micro- and macro-Ievels. The principal assertion is that sex is a social construction which is socially produced and individually supplemented. Since there is an unexpressed obligation to be a woman or man, and due to the fact that tolerance towards something third or fourth is extremely low, even transsexuals feel compelled to prove their new sexual identity daily. Especially in an androcentrically structured reality with the patriarchate as a sexual construction, everyday life is determined by division and injustice. Inherited from formally egalitarian, but truly patriarchal, socialist times, the patriarchate in Croatia has soon after the establishment of the democratic order become even better reinforced by means of the pre-modern war paradigm.

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