SXST 2101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1-6: Queer Studies, Sexology, Liberal Feminism

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Sexuality Studies
• Course: SXST 2101
• Professor: Dan Irving

Document Summary

Including our sexual desires: gender as a social identity, some fem. Judith butlers ideas encourage us to view sexual identity as a process, gender is performative nobody is a gender from the start it is a phenomenon that is reproduced constantly. Risks freezing peoples identities in to particular categories: particularism approach focuses on specific groups and in depth study of knowledge, strategic essentialism the adoption of certain identities as certain times to support certain claims. Long story short there is a need to ground sexuality studies in the real world of political struggles globally without assigning categories that can potentially has a homogenizing effect. Identity politics: prominence of english language categories of analysis, matters of curriculum. Sex is repressed because it is incompatible with general intensive work: power and knowledge, modern puritanism imposed its triple edict of taboo, nonexistence and silence.