HREQ 1920 Lecture Notes - Heterosexuality, Transsexual, White Privilege
10 Sep 2013
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Gender discourses gender interpretation; what is accepted as natural or norm; ways of seeing and assuming . Discourses change you can contribute to changing the discourses. Compete to change discourses so discourses become obsolete. Natural: means you are born with it, you are born with it, not learned, inborn, genetic. Cultural: learned, culturally transmitted, environment, nurturer inevitable: unavoidable, bound to happen. Natural and inevitable: has to be accepted, nothing can be changed. Racisim is worse now because it is harder to pin point. Reorientation means shifting your identity so trying all these things to get oriented to your knew identity. Identity sense of self, private self. identity formation = development of our private self. Exam: define compulsory heterosexuality state the relevance and example. Compulsory heterosexuality: required heterosexuality required in society to be straight. You have to like the opposite sex. atleast 10% are not straight.
