POL378H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Jonathan Ned Katz, Heterosexuality, Nuclear Family
Document Summary
"we are dealing less with a discourse on sex than with a multiplicity of discourses produced by a whole series of mechanisms operating in different institutions" Name to be given to a historical construct, not an immutable essence. Not a furtive reality that is difficult to grasp. Great surface network in which the stimulation of bodies, intensification of pleasures, incitement to discourse, and the formation of special knowledges, the strengthening of controls and resistances, are linked to one another, in accordance with a few major strategies. "heterosexual" and "heterosexuality" are creations of a particular, distinct, well-documented time and place. They are words and idea, developed by people whose names are known to us and whose handwritten letters we can still read. Adoption & integration into western culture was a remarkable process that historian jonathan ned katz, the first to chronicle it, has aptly called "the invention of heterosexuality"
