SOC 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Sexual Identity, In Utero, Heterosexuality
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1800"s sex was an insinct aimed at reproducion, not an idenity. 1900"s heterosexuality supported male-female role disincions, weakened by social changes. What do we mean now: binary ideniies based on : atracion, behavior, nature, nurture. There are diferent approaches to the nature argument: nurture, speciic experiences shape atracion. Paul is a professional musician and is gay. Tyler does some kind of physical work and is straight. Cass model (linear stages) vs. feminist inter-secionality models. Dean says yes. (but look carefully at his examples, the sexism endures. ) Ex: the ann arbor lesbian community leader married a man, but sill ideniies herself as a lesbian. Suggests that lesbian is a group idenity (social, cultural) more than an individual idenity. Difers over ime and from place to place. It seems to be rooted in biology, but how we respond to and act out that biology is up to us.
