POLS 2150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Billy Tipton, Jim Crow Laws, Bessie Smith
24 Feb 2016
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Week 4: gender and power in modernity: marxism: gender, class and the. Gay and lesbian community in the 1990"s have invented a mythology: silence, invisibility, isolation, could not express who they were. Coming out has changed everything: only need everyone to come out and homophobia would cease. Must understand how heterosexism and homophobia are reproduced. Emergence of gay identity associated with the relations of capitalism: allowed for emergence of gay community, experience differentiated by class, race and gender. Interdependent household and gay identity: in interdependent households there are no social means to develop a gay social identity, husband and wife are interdependent because they both produce, not a lot of socialization outside of the family. Change in the second half of the 19th century: production removed, family now a site of personal life, women had to venture out to sell their labour, urbanization, led to sustained urban communities. For those who had same sex preferences: more accepted in public life.
