SOC359H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Parenting, Heteronormativity, Heterosexuality
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Agenda: heteronormativity, individuals, state, challenges, queer politics. What is the role of sex: the act of sex as being important as a social category, even though heterosexuality and homosexuality were present thoughout history they. It makes biological sex categories feel real weren"t an identities until the 1890"s. It also suggests that heterosexuality is a natural things throughout history: but heterosexuality as an identity only came to being in the 19th century. The psychopathia sexualis: written by a german psychologist. It relates to foucault as the deviant social subject. Heteronormativity: the mundane everyday ways that heterosexuality becomes privileged and taken for granted as normal (or natural) It is not the same as heterosexuality: because heterosexuality is the natural way of being. It flipped questions that were originally suggested for homosexuality: they replaced the word homosexuality, with the word heterosexuality instead, these questions may sound dated now, eg. It suggests that heterosexuality is something that needs to be explained.
