WS 334 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Masturbation, Governmentality, Biopower
19 Oct 2016
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Because of the way we read bodies, we recognize that some bodies are given more integrity than others. We can exist but we cannot become valued subjects without our cyborginess (pens, coke, chewing gum ) Some things are so readily available to us that we don"t need to know it. Soon to be associated with the integrity of a body. We"re going to talk about the heteronormative in relation to disability. Nuclear family, attracted to opposite sex"s genitals (based in procreation), gender roles, aggressive male, passive female, gender-sex match up, follows strict binary logic, able-bodied. The heteronormative is about a normative body, an able-bodied subject. That is what our immediate respond will assume. It"s a large canopy term that doesn"t distinguish between types of disabilities. (canopy/value production) for the most part she will refer to a severe physical disability. Typically, the cultural majority produces the disabled body as being asexual.
