SOCA03Y3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Trans Woman, Adrienne Rich, Heteronormativity

• School: UTSC
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCA03Y3
• Professor: Kathy Liddle

Document Summary

Sense of self as masculine or feminine. Social constructionism: ideas about sexual identity are created, disseminated, and maintained by society. Surveillance is the way we look at each other and understand the norms of our culture and watching each other and make sure we fit in. Making sure we fit in the roles. Cultural determination and don"t acknowledge human interactions. Homosexual or lesbian or gay: same sex attraction. Pansexual: attraction to all genders, including transsexuals and transgendered people. Polygyny : coupling of one man and more than one woman. Polyandry: coupling of one woman and more than one man. Polyamory: multiple partners by consensus, "responsible non-monogamy" They are not biological realities, but are socially produced and. The lgbtq community don"t fall under the security of law. Being lgbtq is criminalized in certain portions of the world. Discourses: ways of thinking, talking, and writing about the world. Sexual scripts : what a culture considers to be appropriate sexual sexuality.