SOC 345 Chapter Notes - Chapter 14 pt 4/5: Social Construction Of Gender, Heterosexuality
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A study of boys at river high for 18 months. Engaging in very public practices of heterosexuality, boys affirm much more than just masculinity; they affirm subjecthood and personhood through sexualized interactions (pp 347) Compulsive heterosexuality is not about desire for sexual pleasure exactly it"s more about an excitement felt as sexuality in a male supremacist culture which eroticizes male dominance and female submission (jeffrey 1998, 77) (pascoe, Gender is inequality is reinforced everyday through interactions. Affirms masculinity and dominance by symbolically or physically mastering girl"s bodies and sexuality. Getting girls allowed boys to find common ground in affirming each other"s masculinity and positioned them as subjects who had a right to control what girls did with their bodies. (pp 347) Cross-sex touching affirms heterosexuality and masculinity. (pp. The use of touch (especially between the sexes)" maintains a. Superiors touch subordinates, invade their space, and interrupt them in a way that subordinates do not do to superiors.
