SOC 202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Heteronormativity, Sexual Objectification, Neoliberalism
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Strict gender dichotomy (there are men, and there are women, no in between) Gender representations largely based on binary understandings of gender. It is officially prescribed as a two gender model. Trans: those whose gender identity doesn"t correspond to the sex characteristics they were born with . They become reduced to one characteristic the fact that they are trans. It is important to represent trans violence, however when that is the only thing represented, their plight becomes marginalized. We do not have a core set of desires, they have been produced throughout all of our lives. Ideas about sexuality come into being through how we talk about it. We talk about sex even when we are not. The victorian era saw an explosion of discourses about sexuality. Practices emerged that produced such ideas about sex (such as confessions) Worked to produce sexual subjectivities, our identity is tied up to the sex acts we like.
