KINE 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Compulsory Heterosexuality, Sexual Minority, Heterosexuality

• School: York University
• Department: Kinesiology & Health Science
• Course: KINE 1000
• Professor: Hernan Humana

Document Summary

Every individual should have the right to enjoy their bodies through physical activity. (wellard, Women have sex for a lot of reasons. Telling of sexuality produces discourses or truths about sexuality. Truths are produced based on knowledge that come together around particular norms. It is also mobilized in relations of power in ways that affect how bodies and institutions are produced. Also a method of organizing individuals within knowledge/power relationships. Sex: biological sex gender: masculinity/femininity, testosterone/estrogen sexuality: Sex, gender and sexuality are all linked by normative ideals. Those normative ideals fuse sex, gender, sexual practice together under the guise that those normative standards are natural. Compulsory heterosexuality produces normative sexualities intelligible vs. unintelligible. Those who diverge from gender norms trouble the stability of the gender order and call its logic into question. Social, historical, cultural, race, ethnicity, religion, class and age are intertwined within them. We often under-theorize the ways heterosexuality produces and enforces normative behavior.