HREQ 1920 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Doggy Style, Heteronormativity, Genderqueer
17 Nov 2016
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Wednesday, November 16th, 2016
For Midterm: Know the difference between intersex, transgender, transsexual.
Exam:
• In-class
• November 30th, 2016
• First Part: Identification. Identify a concept and define the concept, the significance
of concept and what article it can be found. Eight to choose from, and pick 5 for a
total of 25 points.
• Second Part: Essay: Two questions, you pick one. Compare and contrast two
concepts.
Lecture 10: Subjugated Sexualities
Heteronormativity:
• Heteronormative viewpoints are reinforced by institutions and social policies.
• Human beings fall into these distinct and complementary categories: male and
female, that sexual and marital relations are normal only when they are between
people of different sexes, and that each sex has certain natural roles in life.
• The only sexual orientation that we consider normal are heterosexuality.
• Those who identify and criticize heteronormativity say that it distorts
discourse by stigmatizing deviant concepts of both sexuality and gender and
makes certain types of self-expression more difficult.
People who do not fall into the heteronormative categories of sexuality and
gender are seen as weird, doing it for attention, abnormal.
People dont want to be gay in a heteronormative world because of our
society and societal expectations.
Trans Terminology: The Umbrella Term
• What links trans identities together is their rejection of a normative experience of
sex/gender and biology.
Misalignment of our heteronormative sex category system (gender, biology
and sex). When you are trans you are not aligning into the heteronormative
sex category system.
• Trans also includes more specific identities. Beyond these broader categories, such
as cross dressers, drag kings and queens, butch lesbians, androgynes (not aligning
with masculine or feminine, they align themselves in the middle)—just to name a
few.
• There are many, many different identities going under this umbrella of trans and
that a single individual may identify with more than one of these identity categories.
• )f youre gender-queer it is often actuated with being homosexual or lesbian but that
is not true.
• Prior to Christianity Trans has existed. Christianity really targeted anyone who was
non-normative and anyone who was outside of a heteronormative relationship was
considered problematic.
• Solomy: Any type of sex act that wasnt used for procreation )E: Doggy style, oral
sex, anal sex. )t was considered a crime to have any other sex act that wasnt
missionary. In Jamaica it is considered a crime to have sex in a park or beach for
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Document Summary
For midterm: know the difference between intersex, transgender, transsexual. In-class: november 30th, 2016, first part: identification. Identify a concept and define the concept, the significance of concept and what article it can be found. Eight to choose from, and pick 5 for a total of 25 points: second part: essay: two questions, you pick one. People don(cid:495)t want to be gay in a heteronormative world because of our discourse by stigmatizing deviant concepts of both sexuality and gender and makes certain types of self-expression more difficult. People who do not fall into the heteronormative categories of sexuality and gender are seen as weird, doing it for attention, abnormal. society and societal expectations. Trans terminology: the umbrella term: what links trans identities together is their rejection of a normative experience of sex/gender and biology. Misalignment of our heteronormative sex category system (gender, biology and sex).
