SOCIOL 135 Lecture 4: Sept. 17, 2014 - Constructing Homosexual and Heterosexual
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Wednesday, september 17: emergence and construction of homosexuality, constructing a heterosexual identity. Jeffery weeks: when it comes to homosexuality, not only have attitudes varied, so have social and subjective meanings , physical acts might be similar, but their social implications are often profoundly different (42) But, i"m a cheerleader: 1999, director: jamie babbit, direction hard to make cuts to the film to avoid an nc-17 rating, parents, friends, and boyfriends staging an intervention for main character because they think she is gay. It"s homosexuals, not heterosexuals, who are questioned and whose existence are rendered problematic: many heterosexuals do not think of themselves as heterosexual ; not considered a salient part of their identity. Heterosexual identity they reject the term: lesbian feminists want to proclaim their identity because its important to political identity, being in a dominant group often renders that identity invisible, similar to whiteness as an unmarked category.
