HSCI 120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Gayle Rubin, Friedrich Engels, Hetaira
27 Oct 2017
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HSCI 120 Week 2:
Overview of this week’ readings:
- The Monogamous Family, Freidrich Engle
o Friedrich Engels is an important theorist of social determinants of health
o Understanding structural factors that shape our health in society
o Theorizing social organization of our lives in terms of economics
o Helped us understand relationship between sexuality and economy
o He was one of the first to theorize that differences between men and women
were sociological not just biological
o Based on economic conditions of family on the need of accumulation of private
property over communal
o Theory that marriage was dependent on economic consideration
o Hetaerism: arose in the monogamous family as a form of sexual relations
between a husband and wife that institutionalized the freedom of men to have
sexual relations outside the family but not women.
o The orkig lass as eept of the arrageets of the oogaous fail
as they were not wealthy
o ufaithful ife – her lover was kept secret. They often met in the middle of
the night when the husband was gone, and separated at daybreak. Brought on
the oeet of Alas or Auade = poetry and songs.
o Sex-love: the romantic love of the Aubades. It really only arises between the wife
of the bourgeois man who is breaking the fidelity but taking on a secret love or
the iddle lass as the ere’t partakig of the oogaous orgaizatio.
o Capitalism: in terms of industrial capitalism - beginning of world trade and new
world discovery. Capitalist were getting wealthy through production and
factories. Capitalism brought with it a notion of free-will. People should be free
to interact in the marketplace as autonomous individuals and that they had
rights in terms of having a free contract.
o Human rights: although the notion of free will in bourgeois, it still became an
important aspect of their social character to stay in contracted marriage
o Full freedom of marriage: would mean abolishing capitalist modes of production.
With the end of property relations marriage based on economic considerations
would disappear
o Main message = social life organizes sexual life
- Thinking Sex, Gayle Rubin
o Proposing a very radical way of thinking about sexuality (for that time)
o Sexual value system (good/natural; bad/unnatural): hierarchy of value, as it still
is today. There is still a moral value to how we think about sex
o She created a conversation (about sex value)
o Chared Cirle = good, normal, natural, blessed sexuality; the outer limits =
bad, abnormal, unnatural, dammed sexuality → sex value system of society
o She defends the right of sexual minorities
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