INDG 1000Y Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Drew Hayden Taylor, Orgasm, Joy Harjo
16 Feb 2017
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The personal and interpersonal expression of those socially contructed qualities, desires, roles and identities which have to do with sexual behaviour. An unreasoned force threatened the reason of man". Gendered violence, political order and the european conquest of the americas. Sex and war: rape and enslavement of women and men. Basis for patriarchal state form of exerting control and power females are submission to males. Peter sigal, 2000 from moon goddesses to virgins: the colonization of yucatecan maya sexual desire. Moon goddess a female deity who had sex with other gods thereby creating the maya. Sex acts were understood in terms of their power to create, maintain and destroy society. Mayans did not catergorize acts as heter or homo sexual. Women should be pure, virtuous and sexually innocent. Sex is necessary obligation owed to men. Women were not to talk or think about it as owed to themselves. Long standing reports dating back to jesuits.
