Women's Studies 2161A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Sex Education, Clitoris, Stone Butch

• School: Western University
• Department: Women's Studies
• Course: Women's Studies 2161A/B
• Professor: Nichole Edwards

Document Summary

Hungarian journalist who corresponded with doctors and psychiatrists: his purpose was to describe two equal but different forms of sexual. Why does this matter: certain behaviours were classified as sins and sometimes as crimes (adultery, as the french theorist michel foucault pointed out, however, the mid to late. Victorian discipline (cid:494)hysteria(cid:495) having a womb making them unfit for public offices and: children were vulnerable to sexuality masturbation intellectual pursuits. Women getting pleasure from sex were going to be bad people and bad mothers: graham cracker and corn flakes made so it would calm then down and. Anti masturbation devices: men were thought to be more sexually driven than girls, morbid sexual passion for one of the opposite sex. Historiography: transhistorical accounts, first historians assumed that lesbian identity was the same in the past as it was in their lives, these histories are driven by politics because reclaiming history is an important political tool for oppressed minorities.