SOC211H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Sexual Assault, Two-Spirit, Lgbt
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Identify and explain the main key features that help define deviant forms of sexuality. Influence of power on understandings of sexuality: foucault, those in power control what is deviant about sexuality, scientific, legal, and elite discourses shape reality. 2 foreigners, and aristocratic adolescent boys for the purposes of pleasure. Considerable variability in aboriginal sexual cultures: dominated by the dominant moral codes at the time. Some commonalities, in contrast to colonizing european cultures: sexuality = a gift from the creator, part of the stories that have been passed down in generations, physical, spiritual, intellectual, emotional. Recognition of multiple sex/gender variants e. g. , nadleeh; berdache. In traditional aboriginal cultures, there can be more than 2 sexes, and more than 2 genders. 1700 intimacy within marriage: more than just reproduction, church still played an important role, family unit became more isolated, and family unit, became more private.
