KINE 1000 Lecture Notes - Heterosexism, Heteronormativity, Michel Foucault
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Why do we have sex: pleasure, reproduction. Natural and normal : some sexualities are positioned as natural and others as normal, sexuality is regulated around these concepts, these concepts help us employ sexuality as an extension of relations of power, michel foucault. Telling of sexuality produces discourses or truths about sexuality. It is a method of organizing individuals within knowledge/power relationships (self) surveillance ensures compliance with regulatory norms. Linear model of sex/gender/sexuality sex biological sex two sexes gender masculinity/femininity testosterone/estrogen sexuality heterosexuality: this model. Sex, gender and sexuality are all linked by normative. Those normative ideals fuse sex, gender, sexual practice together under the guise that those normative standards are natural. Compulsory heterosexuality produces normative sexualities intelligible (the norm) vs. unintelligible (outsiders, don"t fit in) Those who diverge from gender norms trouble the stability of the gender order and call its logic into question. Fear of or discrimination against homosexuality/homosexuals/sexual minorities: heterosexism: