POL S212 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Patricia Hill Collins, Heterosexism, Heterosexuality

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POL S212
• Professor: Sevan Beukian

Document Summary

Prisons for our bodies, closets for our minds - The invisibility of gays and lesbians helped normalize heterosexuality, fueled homophobia, and supported heterosexism as a system of power (94) Margins of society within racial/ethnic groups (94: privileged groups believe locked up minorities get what they deserve and do not merit social programs that will show them a future. Intersecting race and sexuality and gender: why is the "other" sexualized, woven through all of flaubert"s oriental experiences, exciting or disappointing, is an almost uniform association between the orient and sex. In making this association flaubert was neither the first nor the most exaggerated instance of a remarkably persistent motif in western attitudes to the orient . White fear of black sexuality is a basic ingredient of white racism cornel west: link to forced nudity of iraqi prisoners. ->both frames function on the construction that black sexuality as excessive promiscuity combined with homosexuality as impossibility among blacks.