GSWS 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Social Constructionism, Kinsey Scale, Gender Identity
27 Apr 2018
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GSWS 100 – Week 9
Overview: studying sexual identities
This Week
- If ou do’t hae the oaular for ertai tpes of thigs, ou a ot ee ko
- Deaturalize: look at soethig that e take for grated, hat if it as’t like that,
what would be different (ways to complicate it)
Week 10:
- To see bisexuality as itself that constructs sexual identity
Week 11:
- A lot of trans gender individuals
Week 12:
- A movie
Sexual Identity and Sexual Orientation
- We start thinking about how we are as people
- Binary model of sexual attraction
- The kinsey scale: 0-x from exclusively heterosexual non-sexual
o People try to overcomplicate the model
- Binary model of seual idetit: it’s aiguous
- Gender is complicated: why are you sexually attracted to particular types of people.
- Are we attracted to someone by gender embodiment – chromosome, genitals,
reproductive capacity, hormonal makeup
o Gender expression
o Gender identity.
- Gender may determine some part of attraction.
- Does their sexual identity affect the way you interact with them.
- Experiment
o Sometimes they want particular characteristics but some want different
personalities. (attraction)
▪ Personal values
▪ Similar hobbies
o These are all fators that do’t take seual idetit i aout.
o What other things determine your attraction to them not including sexual
identity
Models and vocabularies of sexual diversity
- The genderbread person
o Looks at sexual identity
o Gender expression
o Biological sex
o Sexual/attracted to and romantically attracted to
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