SOC102H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Hostile Work Environment, Sexual Orientation, Honor Killing
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Lecture 4 inequality with respect to sexual orientation. Readings: state of georgia house bill number 757, 2016, uganda anti-homosexuality act, 2014, section 159 of the criminal code of canada (all 3 readings available on portal) br. Two kinds of sexual harassment: quid pro quo sexual harassment. Sexual threats or bribery, employment decisions, hours you get: hostile environment sexual harassment. Sexual jokes, comments, touching that interferes with work or creates an unfriendly work environment. One partner lashes out physically against another during an argument: intimate terrorism: General desire of one partner to control the other. Violently defending oneself against someone engaging in intimate terrorism: routed in a notion of patriarchy gender conflict. Foucault: 1870s: argues homosexuality did not exist before the 1870s because nothing appeared before, succumbed to temptations to someone of the same sex , coming out of the closet was a more modern invention/phenomenon.
