SXST 1600 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Victorian Era, Adrienne Rich, Heterosexuality
29 Oct 2017
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Think about gender roles, sexualized relationships, emotions, and constituted by class, ethnicity, race, disability. Histories of sexuality iii: different sex erotic norm, nuclear family, cold war, adrienne rich, compulsory heterosexuality, monquie wittig, the straight mind. Youtube video - heterosexuals the first perverts -21. Legitimate desire is for procreation coupled with proper man/woman hood. Changing class relations: family transforms from reproductive unit to unit of consumption. Rise of the middle classes reorganization of gender and the crisis in masculinity fear of effeminacy links to the consolidation of heterosexuality. Transformation of marital relations denying sex threatens marriage companion marriages. Family takes on further significance: arbiter of social and sexual relations. Family is a safe space against outside threats communism. Tracking domestic dissidents. started tracking canadian who might be affiliated with. Unknown: a true denial of god, family and (implicitly or potentially) country. Two processes: construction of nuclear family and heterosexual erotic norm, creation of homosexuals as deviant others.
