COMM 3250U Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Gametocyte, Eurocentrism, Eugenics
21 Jun 2018
School
Department
Course
Professor
1. Human Sexuality
The Politics of Sexuality
Review Digital Content
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IaH0Ws8RtSc War on the Weak: Eugenics in America (10
min)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5aglbgTEig à An Introduction to Anthropology (5 min)
The Atlantic Salve Trade https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnV_MTFEGIY (11 min)
Review
Moving beyond naturalism and biological determinism
Sexuality is historically and culturally situated à diversity in sexual forms
Sexuality is closely linked to other aspects of identity à like class and race
The growth of academic disciplines like anthropology and psychology pathologized
and stigmatization of certain sexual behaviours
20th à crystallization and policing of sexual identities, perceived deviance,
abnormality
Review: Moving Beyond Sex
Is it possible to “unthink sex”?
1. Ethnocentrism and Eurocentrism
2. Unpack your cultural suitcase
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3. Mind map: where do your ideas about sexuality come from?
Engels: monogamy as an economic concept à supremacy of man in marriage resultant from
economic superiority.
Kinsman: the pathologizing of homosexuality as a social problem
4. Sexuality and gender are a product of social interactions
5. Sexual relations and class formation
de Beauvoir: humans as gendered through society, not biology or sex
6. Nature is not clear cut à moving beyond biological determinism
Recognizing Historical “Epochs”: What’s in a name?
Ancient civilizations: Ancient Egypt, Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome*
Dark Ages/Middle Ages* (Islamic Renaissance) *Pre-modern
Early Modern Period – 1450s – 1650s (Religious wars)
Age of Empires (Scientific Revolution, Renaissance, Enlightenment) 1600s – early
1800s
Industrial Revolution and Victorian Era (late modern)
7. 1800s -> height is 1860s/70s/80s/90s
8. 1900sà Twentieth century: Modernism and postmodernism
Twentieth Century Timeline
WWI, 1920s, WWII: flourishing of gay culture in metropolitan areas
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Document Summary
Review digital content https://www. youtube. com/watch?v=iah0ws8rtsc war on the weak: eugenics in america (10 min) https://www. youtube. com/watch?v=j5aglbgteig an introduction to anthropology (5 min) Sexuality is historically and culturally situated diversity in sexual forms. Sexuality is closely linked to other aspects of identity like class and race. The growth of academic disciplines like anthropology and psychology pathologized and stigmatization of certain sexual behaviours. 20th crystallization and policing of sexual identities, perceived deviance, abnormality. Engels: monogamy as an economic concept supremacy of man in marriage resultant from economic superiority. Ancient civilizations: ancient egypt, ancient greece, ancient rome* Early modern period 1450s 1650s (religious wars) Age of empires (scientific revolution, renaissance, enlightenment) 1600s early. Industrial revolution and victorian era (late modern: 1800s -> height is 1860s/70s/80s/90s, 1900s twentieth century: modernism and postmodernism. Wwi, 1920s, wwii: flourishing of gay culture in metropolitan areas. 1950s the red scare (communist scare) amid postwar normalcy, kinsey reports, Christine jorgenson (first sex change operations) https://www. youtube. com/watch? v=17u01_swjre boys beware .
