Women's Studies 2160A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Sexual Assault, Intersubjectivity, American Psychiatric Association

• School: Western University
• Department: Women's Studies
• Course: Women's Studies 2160A/B
• Professor: Prof

Document Summary

Inimate relaions: lecture 6 slide 3: freedom of choice (who you can and cannot be inimate with) Medicalizaion of sexuality-medical and psychiatric deining of sexuality. What we think of as human experiences become understood in terms of medical knowledge. What about the relaionship to out own bodies as egenic-self empowered subjects. slide 6: apa&apa: american psychological associaion and american psychiatric associaion. Dsm - diagnosics and staisics manual. paricular symptoms might lead to a paricular diagnosis. Cure or manage these symptoms? slide 7: movement to shit homosexuality from being a psychiatric and sociopathic disorder. 70s: rebellion and revolt, atenion to human rights. Revolt against ppl in the mental health system. 1973: apa declassiied homosexuality, saying in itself it cannot be understood as a mental disorder. Homosexuality as a mental illness has been defended by some psychiatrists, who say it"s a way to pass by religions that say homo is a sin. And against legal understanding as homosexuality as a crime.