SOC395H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Amber L. Hollibaugh, Catherine Hakim, Feminist Theory
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Patriarchy pp. 20-33 in chrisine williams and arlene stein, sexuality and gender: moraga, cherrie and amber hollibaugh. Powers of desire: the poliics of sexuality. (pp. 394-405: hakim, catherine. Sexuality = male dominance (gender equality: staisics around rape, sexual harassment, men the vast majority of aggressors; women are the vicims, only 7. 8% not be the vicim of sexual assault. Leaves out men"s power to deine what is eroic: pg. A theory of sexuality that is feminist in my sense here locates sexuality within a theory of gender inequality; gender inequality is a criical term for the social hierarchy of men over women. To make a theory feminist, it is thus not enough that it be authored by a biological female. For my purposes here, a theory of sexuality becomes feminist to the extent it treats sexuality as a construct of male power deined by men, forced on women, and consituive in the meaning of gender.
