Women's Studies 2163A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Gayle Rubin, Vise, Me Too Movement

• School: Western University
• Department: Women's Studies
• Course: Women's Studies 2163A/B
• Professor: Nichole Edwards

Document Summary

Gayle rubin (1984) on the hierarchies of sex: She talks about sexual norms and how they change. She says we need to revolutionize the way we talk about sex. Heterosexuals in marriage at top - pedophiles at bottom. She"s most known for her charned circle. Sexual norms have changed - things that didn"t used to be acceptable now acceptable or vise versa. She argues that because of this circle we live in a pretty sex negative world. She says we tend to need to keep things separate - what is acceptable, what is not, separate. She paints it as brick walls that work like dominoes - if one wall falls then the others become intermixed. Society is worried about these walls falling like dominoes. Meg barker reworked the circle in 2013. She writes not what is acceptable or not but that it is uid, interchanging etc.