POLS 2150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Heterosexism, Billy Tipton, Mccarthyism
4 Apr 2015
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Three main strategies: the control of contraception and abortion. 1920"s and 30"s - rise of fascism: promoting motherhood. European wide allowances, bonuses - medals awarded for those with more children. Germany and sweden - introduction of childcare to make women want to have more children: emphasis on family, paternal responsibility. Spain: franco and new moral order fashioned on paternal power. Capitalism and gay identity: emergence of gay identity associated with the relations of capitalism, material relations: allowed for emergence of gay community, experience differentiated by class, race and gender. Early 1990"s - same time as halperin essay. Idea running rampant in gay community was that if everyone were to come out than homophobia would cease. Emergence associated with the relations of capitalism ~ materialist analysis. The family was the site of production. In that household, the social means of forming a gay identity was cut off - men and women interdependent bc of communal production - same with children.
