SOC395H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Medicalization, Sexology, Androgyny
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Signs: journal of women in culture & society. (37:850-856) Repressive hypothesis: sex has been repressed in society. Became a taboo to talk about it - censored: cultural repression, economic repression displaced. Sex was repressed because the middle class felt economically. Not in sync with the notions of capitalism. Talking/having non reproductive sex -> wasting your. Should be reproductive, if it"s not, it"s not economical. Direct your energy towards maximizing labour capacity, capitalism instead of wasting it. He is against the repressive hypothesis: repression between who can speak about sex experts should and should be authorized. Making it an object of knowledge: page 12, page 17: The seventeenth century, then, was the beginning of an age of repression emblematic of what we call the bourgeois societies, an age which perhaps we still have not completely left behind. Calling sex by its name thereafter became more difficult and more costly. And even these prohibitions, it seems, were afraid to name it.
