CJS 101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Tunxis Community College, Heterosexuality, Peer Pressure
8 Dec 2020
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Locker-room talk; teenage boys and masculinity (talk about sex and girls). Indicates how heterosexual innuendoes, sexual bravado, and sexual one- upmanship permeated these primarily male spaces. In these gendered spaces, masculinity is assumed to be synonymous with heterosexuality. Boys talking about heterosexuality are and are not talking about sex. Their talk reveals less about sexual orientation and desire than it does about the centrality of the ability to exercise mastery and dominance over girls" bodies. These practices serve to defend boys against emasculating insults like those in the fag disclosure. Demonstrating dominance in a variety of ways is a central part of contemporary. Compulsive heterosexuality: constellation of sexualized practices, discourses, and interactions. Rich argues that heterosexuality not only describes sexual desires, practices and orientations but is a political institution . The enforcement of heterosexuality for women as a means of assuring male right of physical, economic, and emotional access is a central component of gender inequality.
