COMM 3250U Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Pierre Trudeau, Sexology, Social Science
1. Human Sexuality
Introduction to Human Sexuality: Key Works and terms
Let’s talk about sex
Sex is
1. The physiological expression of DNA
2. A category of identity
3. A lived experience
1. Gender: the socially ascribed attributes of sex
4. A social construction (?)
1. How people identify you
5. Biologically determined (?)
1. Getting your sex changed
6. A way of knowing
7. A kind of citizenship
8. A political identity
1. How we belong and don’t belong
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9. Central to how humans organize themselves
There’s no place for the state in the bedroom of the nation – Pierre Trudeau
Modernized Canadian political system
Made it possible for abortion
Changed political rights
Legal for men over 25 to engage in gay sex
Women can get divorces
We shouldn't’t be policing people sexual acts
Can sex change?
Experience of sexuality is different from kid to after puberty
People can not only change their appearance but the way they identify and act as well
Gender is the expression of a sexual identity
Starting points: challenging common understandings
Diversity and complexity of scholarship
Creating ‘normal’
10. No such thing as normal
11. Idea of normal was created by psychiatrists and psychologists
12. Kraft-Ebing, 1880s
13. Freud , 1900s
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Document Summary
Introduction to human sexuality: key works and terms. There"s no place for the state in the bedroom of the nation pierre trudeau. Legal for men over 25 to engage in gay sex. Experience of sexuality is different from kid to after puberty. People can not only change their appearance but the way they identify and act as well. Gender is the expression of a sexual identity. Creating normal": no such thing as normal. Idea of normal was created by psychiatrists and psychologists: kraft-ebing, 1880s. Breakthrough in sexuality in america in 1940 and 50s. Let"s talk about sex, crash course psychology https://www. youtube. com/watch?v=qymp_vafo9m. German philosopher, writer, businessman, social scientist, co-founder of marxism, patron of karl marx. Sexual love" or romantic love" developed out of monogamy. Monogamous marriage originated as a matter of convenience, kinship, geography. First evidence of monogamy found in the tales on the classical greeks (500bce) Sexual love and passionate (chivalrous love) during the middle ages (uc).