SOC 608 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Feminist Sex Wars, Radical Feminism, Socialist Feminism
6 Jan 2018
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The sex wars: lesbian sex wars, thinking the heteronormative, queering the heteronormative, queering gender, queering feminism. Who we are attracted to we think it is biological but it is actually a social construction. In fact, sexuality and who you are attracted to is where your experience meets culture. It is about how what have you experiences is shaped by culture. Culture is the patriarchal and heteronormative structures in out society. When we talk about that natural attraction we are talking about that point where experience meets culture. Its not that individuals have to have experience but they have to see it in other people in their cultures. Joa(cid:374) (cid:272)ott talks a(cid:271)out people"s se(cid:454)ualit(cid:455) a(cid:374)d suggests that e(cid:454)pe(cid:396)ie(cid:374)(cid:272)e should not be measured as truth, experience is a set of practices that is produced from the effect of ideas and social formations and social regulation. In other words, our experience is already constituted through those power relations.
