SOSC 1350 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Family Law, Psychopathy, Sex Offender
23 Oct 2015
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T-shirt slogan (1993: the social construction of normalcy and deviance . The social construction of normal requires the social construction of deviance [whiteness can only be labeled normal, but blackness is labeled deviant: heteronormativity relates to the social construction of normalcy and deviance . Queer = lgbta community: heteronormativity vis- -vis the mythical norm (importance of perry reading from last week) There is therapy to convert someone from being queer to straight. To be a queer is a mental illness: t-shirt slogan quote: heterosexuality is not natural, just common. [unconscious and explicit, relates to the older term compulsory heterosexuality (adrienne rich, 1980) Heterosexuality is not natural, but compulsory for women adrienne rich. Provided legitimacy for all kinds of demands [lesbian demands] Provided legitimacy for privileging long-term heterosexual monogamous relationships: critiques the idea that homosexuality is always the problem in need of investigation. Karl maria karetny (did not exist until 1868, but the existence of these two terms did)
