SOC365H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Radical Feminism, Marital Rape, Heterosexuality
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Central insights: takes apart heterosexuality deconstructs it: makes you think about it in new ways, heterosexuality as an institution. We typically think of heterosexuality as a series of sexual acts, behaviors between a man and a woman. They argue that there is something more systematic and social about heterosexuality than the biological: involves a series of practices that are socially constructed. These practices occur and reoccur in systematic ways such that we might call it an institution. Heterosexuality is not referred to in any biological or psychological sense. Not just a set of acts and behavior much more than that it is an entire social system. There are norms attached to it dating, marital, courtship norms. Social system in the sense that it comes with certain rituals and economic arrangements. Much more than sexual acts between man and woman elevated into a system of relations.
