SOC 103 Lecture Notes - Michel Foucault, Louise Adams, Orgasm
15 Sep 2012
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What is gender: intersexed identities, philosophic and medical models of the body, one sex model 1250-1750. Meant that men and women shared the same body (male body) Plato said that it was important for both male and female to orgasm at the same time to conceive. This changes with the two sex model as freud comes in the importance of the orgasm is lost. Said that men were stronger and more powerful because their genitals were extroverted. Who you had sex with had nothing to do with your own genitals same sex was completely normal, for entirely pleasurable reasons. Only thing that was taboo was to have sex with someone of the same social status: men were having sex with women of lower classes, boys, slaves, etc, two sex model 1750-present. The structure of patriarchy was still at a height. Now everything about men"s and women"s bodies is seen as different, they"re looked at as different species.
