GSWS 0550 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Gore Vidal, The New York Times Book Review, Hypersexuality

• School: Pitt
• Department: Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies
• Course: GSWS 0550
• Professor: Beaulieu Julie

Document Summary

Bullet points for the invention of heterosexuality by jonathan ned katz. In past times, americans would classify things differently than we do now. By looking at the change of views, intercourse, and lusts over the years, we are about to study sex as a history (katz 84). The idea of sex for pleasure was unheard of. It was thought that this could be wasted if not used for procreation (katz 84-85). The view of the human body was now a means of consumption and pleasure (katz 85). This reminds me of how many families had so many children because they needed workers on farms. Heterosexual hegemony: 1945-1965: the cult of domesticity came shortly after world war ii, where there was a renewed connection between women, being a mother, and working within the home. In conjunction with this, the men were reconvened with breadwinning (katz 90): the sex-conservative mental health professionals re-established a link between heterosexuality and procreation (katz 90).