PSYC 3603 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Stonewall Uprising, Audre Lorde
16 Jul 2020
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Slide 1: feminist perspectives on sex and gender. Sexuality and identity: sexual orientation is about who you"re attracted to and want to have relationships with, some sexual orientations include gay, lesbian, straight, bisexual, pansexual, polysexual, questioning/curious, and asexual. Hetero-normative: worldview that promotes heterosexuality as normal and/or preferred sexual orientation. It is reinforced in laws, social norms (maariage, laws, adoption ) Class and sexuality: class affects access, relationships, and experiences, class analysis overlooked in sexuality studies, class/economics researchers ignoring sexuality and gender as soft issues or. Disability and sexuality: disabled people are sexual citizens too (shah, 2017, gendered ableism (parsons et al. , 2016) Intellectual disabilities and sexuality: sexual education and family/care support, gendered ableism, women with disabilities are marginalized also for their gender, race and sexuality. Social issues and sex: virginity, comes with notion of purity, person has not had sex, is untouched.
