WMS 70 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Class Conflict, Intersectionality, Living Wage
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Charmed circle consists of types of sexual conformity and deviance, but it is not enough to only look at sexuality -- we must also examine gender, race, age, relationships (like familial relationships/incest) Network of powers that work together situationally. Not something you just claim, but you have to establish it through roles. In social interactions, you are creating and exchanging a continuously shifting power. Deeply contextualized by what you think freedom is. Stone butches: can"t open up emotionally, also often would not be comfortable with receiving sexual touching. Positioning female masculinity as a source of power. Criticisms were butches aren"t feminist because they"re replicating gender roles. Same argument against bdsm as using bad power. Backlash against butch-femme relationships is coming from people from higher socioeconomic classes. So much of her idea of sexual freedom is tied up with class struggle, union jobs.
