SOC 300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Heteronormativity, Heterosexuality, Social Constructionism

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 300
• Professor: Kelly Train

Document Summary

Readings: adie nelson (2006); allan g. johnson (2009); susan j. douglas (2010). Debouvoir argues there"s no relationship between your body and performance of gender. The thought was your behaviour stemmed from your biology, your reproductive organs. Attraction is shaped by heteronormativity and your experiences. 1 sex medical model, greeks thought men"s and women"s bodies were the exact same, except men"s were external and women"s was internal. Biological determining emerges in the 1800, after darwin. And marriage was about economics and procreating since the basis of marriage was about the economics, there was no expectation of monogamy. Interlocking systems race, class, sex, ethnicity etc. derogatory stereotypes racialized gender stereotypes. Regulation of sex, gender and sexuality heterosexuality and heternomitivty came with the 2 sex model, and gender became regulated forced conformity and social order. Medicine still operates in terms of heterosexual and gender norms all women used to be seen as mentally ill cause they had a uterus.