POLS 3710 Lecture Notes - Pedophilia, Genderism, Intersectionality
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Gender as a cultural fiction, a performative effect. Challenge to the arbitrary understanding of the sexual world. Discourse: dialogue, multiple people in society, social dialogue, create a narrative, sets norms, thoughts change over time. Medicalization of sexuality not normal sexualities are perverse, something wrong with them = this is a discourse. Make a category = discourse which is medicalized. Definition of person create a subject is discourse. Church getting people to talk about sexuality deploys power. The dominant approach to study non-traditional sexuality. Study of sexuality is fashionable cultural and humanities. Since 1990"s institutionalization of queer theory. Relational understanding an identity without an essence . Clear at what queer theory is not about. Less clear about what it is about. About amplifying the 3 elements of heteronormativitiy ^ Has accomplished a lot more ie. perverts. All those that don"t fit/try to challenge heteronormativity.