SOSC 1900 Lecture Notes - Miscegenation, Sander Gilman, Queer Theory
31 Mar 2014
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Lecture # 3: cultural construction of females & males. And with this defining moment the sex/gender system begins to manifest itself on our bodies, minds, psychology, etc. and with it comes the social investment in the assumed binary relationship between boys/girls; ladies/gentlemen; man/woman; males/females. At the same time, this assumed absolute difference, disciplines not only our behaviour, but also how others behave toward us and our place in the social world. Physical sex, gender identity, and gender roles should in any given person align to either all-male or all-female norms, and in this system heterosexuality is considered to be the only normal" sexual orientation. Heteronormativity is the reinforcement of certain viewpoints by many social institutions and social policies. These viewpoints include the idea that human beings fall into two distinct and complementary categories: male and female, that sexual and marital relations are normal only when between people of different sexes, and that each sex has certain.
