SOCIOL 3AC Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Feminist Theory, Oedipus Complex, Heterosexism
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Dude, you"re a fag - cj pascoe a. b. c. Homophobia is a major element in dominant not done. Compulsory heterosexuality - sexuality is a continuum, but social pressures penalize homosexual side of the continuum, pressuring people to heterosexuality. Homophobia - fear and misunderstanding of same sex desire. Heterosexism - processes by which non-heterosexual people are categorized and discriminated against because of their sexual identity/behavior. Heteronormativity - ways of privileging heterosexuality as better through assumptions that heterosexuality is the universal expression of normal and healthy sexual behavior i. ii. Homosexual is deviant or less satisfactory by implication. Pascoe"s work challenges psychoanalytic feminism and social-psychological construction of masculinity a. b. Work by chodorow re-worked classic freudian theories of oedipal. Chodorow argued that men and women have profound psychological differences not done. Freudian oedipal crisis and development of gendered identity a. b. Child formulates desire to possess mother, resolution of oedipal crisis is key to child development.
