HISC 27 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Molly House, Heterosexuality, Scientific Revolution
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Deviant: diverges from the norm; someone that does something negatively different from the norm. People saw different kinds of sex as natural and unnatural . The conceptions of normal and abnormal were refrained, and the difference between the two have been thoroughly explained: as a consequence of natural and unnatural sex, clearer group ideas and sexual cultures were created and maintained. Prior to the 19th centuries, there were no sexual identities. The creation of deviancy and normalcy created each other (one would not exist without the other. There were important political, intellectual, cultural, religious events during this time: challenges to political systems (1789 french revolution, gradual loss of authority in the roman churches. How those changes adjusted gender roles, and sexed bodies. Aristotle (384-322 bce: two-sex body (male and female bodies as different) Believed that male"s bodies were perfect; female"s bodies were imperfect: one-seed generation (males contribute soul in seed, women provide only the raw, physical matter and womb)
