Media, Information and Technoculture 2200F/G Lecture 8: Queer Theory and Sexuality

• School: Western University
• Department: Media, Information and Technoculture
• Course: Media, Information and Technoculture 2200F/G
• Professor: Sasha Torres

Document Summary

Essentialism vs. constructivism: essentialism is the belief that something has an unchanging or natural essence to it. Sexual essentialism is the view that sex is a natural force that exists prior to social life. Sexuality is entirely produced by our anatomy, our hormones, etc. Considers sex to be: individual rather than social, transhistorical and unchanging rather than historically specific and determined. Yes there is a biological drive to pass ones genes on, to. The specific historical forms that these activities take is there is a biological drive to eat or reproduce (149) a different matter. How do people in a particular place, time and social formation, make meaning out of those biological aspects. Similarly, sexuality impervious to political analysis as long as it is primarily conceived as a biological phenomenon or an aspect (cid:498)) resented seeing nature and history confused at every turn, and ) wanted to track down (cid:499)