Women's Studies 1021F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 92: Blue-Collar Worker, Judith Butler, Ender Wiggin

• School: Western University
• Department: Women's Studies
• Course: Women's Studies 1021F/G
• Professor: Chris Roulston

Document Summary

For krafft-ebing, the invert was a sexual aberration, a pathology. The invert also helped create an identity around which people. 1928, radclyffe hall was living among community of self- proclaimed inverts and lesbians. Radclyffe living with group of self-proclaimed inverts and could rally lesbians. Homosexuality began to speak in its own behalf, to demand that. Focault"s concept of reverse discourse" its legitimacy or naturality" be acknowledged, often in the same vocabulary, using the same categories by which it was medically disqualified. (history of sexuality 101) Dramatic shifts in meaning happens with all sorts of terms, such as women. 1970"s identity politics, recognition for sexual minorities. Identity politics the grouping of individuals around particular markers of identity, their bases for solidarity and activism lie in the idea of a shared social identity. This enables members of subordinated groups to attain political recognition and increased self determination.