FEM 1100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Heterosexuality, Heteronormativity, Domino Theory
20 Oct 2016
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Textbook: chapter 5: strange sister in no man"s. In the mid-20th-century, second-wave feminism began to focus on issues of sexuality as one place where the influence of culture and patriarchy desperately needed to be challenged. Our popular understanding of sexuality holds that sex is a biological function; that it is a core set of truths about who we are, or who we are not; and to the gender of our erotic choice. Sex wars: these were nasty and very heated debates over what counts as proper" feminist sexuality. The big three": lesbian sadomasochism, butch-femme roles, and the relationship between violence against women, pornography, and the imagined remedy of censorship. Six ideological beliefs that structure thinking about sexuality (see text pg. 112 for full explanation: gender essentialism, sex negativity, the fallacy of misplaced scale, the hierarchical valuation of sex acts, the domino theory of sexual peril, the lack of a concept of benign sexual variation.
