GNDS 215 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Masculinity, Sexual Identity, Heteronormativity

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

Document Summary

Lecture 4: theorizing sexual diversity (january 28th, 2015) Sexuality feelings/emotions, experiences, identities, orientations, practices and desires relating to sexual personhood and sexual being. Sexual identity: your identity does not always match up with sexual orientation, behaviours and desires, sexuality is very complicated. Where heterosexuality as assumed to be the normal natural lifestyle. Constantly encouraged or normalized through childrearing, sex education, dating, marriage, reproduction etc. Heterosexualization of gender: the ways that heterosexuality is incorporated in the construction of masculinities and femininities, ex. Disney: roles that force individuals to conform to heterosexual identities. A term reclaimed by sex-positive feminists, sex radicals and sexual and/or gender non-conforming individuals as a symbol of pride and inclusion. An umbrella term for a range of non-heteronormative sexual identities and non- heteronormative sexual expressions and practices.