SOCI 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Louise Adams, Gay Liberation, Heteronormativity
7 Oct 2016
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The body is not a natural or pre-given entity (social constructionism) Unpacking how the body is positioned in systems of social inequality. Includes sexual orientation and sexual behaviour/acts, but they are not the same. The processes by which acts get converted into identities gets very interesting. Humans engage in a range of sexual behaviours and sexual acts. New sexual identities emerge: heterosexual, homosexual, bisexual, pansexual, asexual, demisexual, lesbians, gays, etc. Different individuals are proclaiming identities and finding others like themselves. The term queer seeks to refuse and undermine sexual identity categories altogether. ^-tried to undo fixed identity, refuses the logic of identity. Approaches to the relationship between sex-gender-sexuality: essentialist approaches (biological determinism): sex: Sex is thought to be a fixed, biological fact (there is something essential, that one cannot do without, something that defines such an approach) An essentialist approach locates sex as a biological fact.
