WGST 1808 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Conversion Therapy, Sigmund Freud, Popular Science

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Women's and Gender Studies
• Course: WGST 1808
• Professor: Aalya Ahmad

Document Summary

Science and gender & gender neoliberalism, and globalization. Biological determinism- belief that characteristics are innate, unchanging, and universal because they are determined by their biology or by nature . Being used in multiple ways, society beliefs. Phrenology (gould)= popular science in the 19th century that correlated skull measurements with characteristics. Gender and sex (lombroso, 1878) criminal mind. Skull size having an affecting on specific aspects of individual. Level of class can be determined by skull shape, smaller brain- less intelligent. Phrenology, no longer accepted by the rise of genetics. Study the mix of biology and society. Sexual pleasure for men is a completely normal process. Women becoming too sexual aka - hysteria. Normal is not known, not a specific binary that is followed, exploration of various forms of sex. Sexual behaviour in the human male (1948), only interviewed men, not a lot of people who show homosexual desire.