SOAN 2400 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Heterosexuality, Social Constructionism, Aversion Therapy

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology and Anthropology
• Course: SOAN 2400
• Professor: Rose Deidre

Document Summary

Lecture 6 femininity, race, class and gender. Sojurner truth: akron woman"s rights convention in 1851. Famous speech given by a former slave and abolitionist movement (abolish slavery), Not only white females but black females should be included. Globalization of gender, race, and class a case study of dominica, eastern caribbean. Intersection of race, class, gender and sexuality - looking at history and colonialism. Dominica, eastern caribbean, string of smaller islands. General outline = ethnographic setting, colonialism and the trans-atlantic slave trade, Reputation and respectability, sexuality, famn blanc (creole for white woman = slut, promiscuous, while dominican women present themselves as respectable) Dominica was a british colony, in some ways it has a similar gender system. Slavery was different for women than men, pre-colonial west africa, reviewed sex slave ratios and how women slaves were treated, gender system already in place before the.