GNDS 215 Lecture 1: GNDS 215 Week 3 Lecture

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Gender Studies
• Course: GNDS 215
• Professor: Melissa Houghtaling

Document Summary

The history of sexuality: applies a genealogical methodology to trace the ways that sexuality has been studies, discussed, organized, and managed. Offers a history of knowledge, discourse, and beliefs about sexuality that have come to inform our present understanding of sexuality. Discourses are ways of constituting knowledge, together with social practices and relations of power. Discourse refers to the language, categories, symbols, etc. , used to communicate information about something. Disciplinary practices encourage individual to monitor and regulate their. Power of the state became both individualizing and totalizing. Disciplinary power also occurs through establishment of scientific. Form of power that transforms (cid:498)docile bodies(cid:499) into disciplined subjects. own and other"s behaviour, not through physical coercion but disciplinary disciplines. (cid:498)experts(cid:499) in these areas employed classification practices to demarcate (cid:498)abnormal(cid:499) from (cid:498)normal(cid:499) citizens. The term (cid:498)homosexual(cid:499) was coined in the late 1800s and became a subject of study. Power is constituted through accepted forms of knowledge and (cid:498)truth(cid:499)