CUL120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Barometer, Gayle Rubin, The History Of Sexuality

• School: Macquarie University
• Department: Critical and Cultural Studies
• Course: CUL120
• Professor: All

Document Summary

* understandings of sexuality being bound up with gender. * heterosexuality dependent on the belief in two stable and definable genders: male and female. * sexuality is more complicated than binaries allow. * conceiving sexuality as biologically determined, sexuality impervious to political analysis. * sexuality: very different forms and means very different things in different historical and cultural contexts. * halperin: the pederast the classical greek adult, married male who periodically enjoys sexually penetrating a male adolescent . * practices labelled (cid:1684)homosexuals(cid:1685) have been understood and experienced quite differently in different cultural contexts. * practices have different values placed on them practices according to context. * practices such as those mentioned have played an integral and socially acceptable function. * male sexual illness ( 19th century defining the words homosexual) * (cid:1688)sexuality as much a human product as are diets, methods of transportation, systems of etiquette, forms of labour, types of entertainment and so on. (cid:1689) (gayle rubin, 1984)