Media, Information and Technoculture 2200F/G Lecture 7: Queer Theory and Sexuality
13 Feb 2017
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Said that she wanted to create a radical theory about sexuality. Essentialism: idea that there is an unchanging or natural essence to something. Sexual essentialism: the view that sex is a natural force that exists prior to social life: considers sex to be: Transhistorial and unchanging rather than historically specific and determined: overall, it is how sexuality/sexual practices/sexual expressions/orientation can change overtime and how will manifest different in varying social contexts. Constructivism: way of thinking of something, that is built by the things around us. Sexual constructivism: sees sexuality as constructive by society rather than being biological or of any inner essence. The belly"s hunger gives no clue to the complexities of cuisine (149) Suggests that con thinking about sex focuses on phenomena"s like populations, neighbourhoods, settlement patterns, migration, urban conflict, epidemiology, and policy technology on things that are evidently social. Essentialism is a type of confusion between nature and history.
