FCSS*1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Judith Butler, Transphobia, Heterosexism
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Theories of sexuality: essentialism: elements of sexuality are based on biology or natural instinct; sexuality is fixed and binary (gay or straight) Suggests there is normal and deviant sexualities: social constructionist: various forms of sexuality are expressed and organized across different societies, classes, gender, and ethnicities. Asks why and how does culture privilege one form of sexuality and marginalize others. Asks why does culture attach so much value to sexuality: feminists: practices of sexuality remain rooted in patriarchal ideas of masculinity/femininity encoded in religion, law, and social institutions. Ex. in religion women are divided into virgins (wait for marriage, no pleasure in sex) and whores (pleasure from sex: queer theory: sexual identities are created by social/political regulation of sexual behaviour. Sexual identities re not fixed but fluid cannot be categorized as identities consist of varied components and to categorize by one aspect is wrong. Previously considered non-normative sexualities are considered equal to heterosexuality.
