Media, Information and Technoculture 2200F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Heterosexuality, Masculinity, Judith Butler

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Gayle rubin: university of michigan late 1960s during second wave feminism, queer activist (1970) Wrote a significant essay the traffic in women . Political economy of sex: spent most of the 70s doing queer activism in san fran training to be an anthropologist, worked with lots of historians to discuss gay and lesbian history. The belief that something has an unchanging / natural essence to it. The view that sex is a natural force that exists prior to social life. Research by historians of sexuality has challenged sexual essentialism by revealing how sexuality changes over time and different social and cultural contexts. Sex is different over different periods of time. In terms of identity and sexual practice: constructivism. A way of thinking about something that attends to the way it is socially or historically constructed. Constructivist approach to sexuality sees sexuality as constructed by society and history, and not as biologically ordained.

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