GNDR 100 Lecture 12: GNDR Gayle Rubin

• School: University of Victoria
• Department: Gender Studies
• Course: GNDR 100
• Professor: Heather Hillsburg

Document Summary

Gayle rubin - a radical theory of sex must identify, desccirbe, explain and denounce eritic injustices and sexial oppresion (rubin 1984, 267) Stop putting things in hierarchy binaries create or gives rise to these hierarchy. Binarys (things that are mutually exclusive) black or white. One side occupies positive traits, the other negative traits. Sex and gender identity are spectrums and can change over time and so are sexual preferences. Normals are always changing, in society and in ourselves. Erotic speciation - dividing individuals into groups based on sexuality. (ex heterosexuals, bi- sexual, a-sexual, pansexual, homosexual, transexual, grey/demi, kinky, dom/sub, vanilla) Pedophile - ancient greek and rome it was acceptable (the simposium) Into other places sexuality isn"t part of their identity. Heterosexual is also a category - species survival, product of ideology, some stereotypes may be that its normal or common, moral in the sense of religion, well understood, monogamy, married and children, power dynamic.