HIST 210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Essentialism, Social Constructionism, Gender Trouble
6 Oct 2018
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Lecture september 14 - how to do the history of. How these developments in the study of sexuality happened. Intended to be confrontational to straight people, those who would cause harm to gay people, but also to the mainstream/assimilation political heads. An extremely provocative term in the 1990s. Mainstream community did not like the term not assimilationist. Gender is performative, practiced, socialized: eve sedgewick, epistemology of the closet. Argues that we need to get away from a minoritarian view of sexuality: only an issue for the minority of the population (ex, lg) Universalizing terms instead how our culture as a whole is structured and fractured by sexuality: sexuality relates to everyone. Stands the test of time as an intellectual device: both were trying to argue against fixed gender and sexual identities. Only marks being outside the dominant view of understanding sexuality, approaching it as a slant: queer is as queer does, degree of critical take on sexuality.
