GSWS 0550 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Genderqueer, Oedipus Complex

• School: Pitt
• Department: Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies
• Course: GSWS 0550
• Professor: Beaulieu Julie

Document Summary

Purity and pollution sex as a moral discourse nancy fischer. Anywhere outside of us no one loves/hates breasts as much as the us does. If you don"t show ankle, then ankles are like whoa: difference between erotic and maternal. Movements towards acts and identities: homosexual couples are questioned for sodomy, whereas heterosexuals are not. Homosexual has become species : acts before 1850 didn"t make someone homosexual, acts post 1850 gives them the identity homosexual . Slut / pervert: anyone can do something promiscuous, but these terms are coined as a fixed identity. Symptom of american dualistic thinking: there"s an in group and out group right vs wrong, culturally uncomfortable with gray area. Sex breaks down the binaries. individuals: sexuality will make people anxious , what counts as polluted / pure / contaminant . Late 1800s: white upper class parents: morally superior to immigrants.