SOSC 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Soranus Of Ephesus, Liberal Feminism, Jackson Katz

• School: York University
• Department: Social Science
• Course: SOSC 1000
• Professor: Terry Conlin

Document Summary

There has been an explosion of gay visibility- and an even larger reaction to it. (p23) In india, the media has been thick with pro-and anti-gay crossfire, especially on the relatively novel subject of indian lesbians. (p23) Most dramatic in its capacity to globalize information about sexual diversity has been the internet. (p 24) The media has given gays and lesbians in lima or jakarta images of. Through the media and the internet, western gay culture can spread to all corners of this world. At the same time, a few of western corporations control the world"s media. They are making profit by providing sex- related images and information to browsers. Since ancient times philosophers such as plato or physicians including. Soranus pondered the mysteries of sexual desire and orientation. In chapter 2 we saw how gay jurist karl ulrichs, influenced by contemporary embryology, developed his quasi-scientific uranian" explanation of sexual orientation.