Women's Studies 2161A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Halloween Costume, Sexting, Sexual Coercion

• School: Western University
• Department: Women's Studies
• Course: Women's Studies 2161A/B
• Professor: Nichole Edwards

Document Summary

Buzzwords: raunch culture, striptease culture, pornified culture, mainstreaming of. A contemporary preoccupation with sexual values, practices and changing norms. The emergence of new forms of sexual experience. Shift from relational to recreational model of sexual behaviour. Reconfiguring erotic life to a location in the marketplace. Our fondness for scandals, controversies, and panics around sex sex . All of these manifestations indicate that (cid:498)sex has become the big story(cid:499) A girl/woman(cid:495)s value only comes from their sexual appeal or behaviour . A girl/woman is sexually objectified not seen as a person with. Women = distinct poses, imagery, products used to aid in sexualization (icecream, etc. ) Sexualization of female body taken for granted it"s normal, banal, mundane . It occurs when at least one of the following conditions are met: excluding other characteristics attractiveness with being sexy autonomy/capacity for decision-making or independent action. Pre 20th century, girls do not organize how they see themselves around their bodies.