COMM 2P20 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Leslie Mah, Masculin Féminin, Popular Culture Studies

• School: Brock University
• Department: Communication Studies
• Course: COMM 2P20
• Professor: Baxter Moore

Document Summary

Important contribution of 1960s second wave" feminism was to open up discussion of gender and sexuality. This paved the way for two other key developments in popular culture theory: Also note the influences of michel foucault (1926-1984), especially his history of. Looks at the notion that sexuality was increasingly repressed in the age of capitalism. Foucault says yes there was a repression of sex, but at the same time, people were fascinated by it. A time of enormous social control over sexuality. Foucault says sexuality was not repressed at all, if it was, people wouldn"t be talking/ thinking about it. Foucault argues that if we study the discourses about sex rather than explicit behaviour, we get a different picture of society"s relationship to sexuality in the capitalist era. Masculinity studies (or men"s studies) emerged out of 2nd wave feminism in the 1970s and 1980s: two waves and a backlash .