SOCI 1F90 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Hegemonic Masculinity, Co-Creation, Heteronormativity
23 Apr 2018
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Heterosexism: the idea that heterosexuality is natural, normal or superior, heterosexism marginalizes other forms of sexual identity. Think about : sexuality is understood and practiced differently in different historical and cultural context, ideas about sexuality change over time and space, sexual practice is learnt, sexual desire is multi-focal, desire is not channeled in one direction. If the drive is biological why is there a negative birth rate. The variation of sexual practice within one person"s life http://www. ted. com/talks/io_tillett_wright_fifty_shades_of_gay. Sex as biologically given (essentialist approach to sexuality) 3 biological laws of sex: only two sexes (male/female binary, genitals are the essential sign of sex, sexual binary is natural, self evident and that sex is unaffected by individual manifestation. Shades of sexual difference: 2% of population is intersexed, 1 in 100 has anatomical ambiguity, 1 in 1000 the ambiguity initiates questions about the child"s sex.
