WMS 70 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Sexology, Broccoli, Ethnography
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Bdsm reading, pushing us to understand subjectivity, sexuality, social influence. Sexual identies are not natural, meaning that they"ve not always existed. _ bdsm practitioners, feminists were saying that lesbian bdsm practitioners were patriarchal and they were supporting patriarchy. These were radical feminists; heterosexuality as a dangerous system, where men have power. Rubin, by critiquing the charmed circle and hetero being morn, she"s criticizing social norms. Your sexual relationship should not be a reason why you are allowed to get tax benefits, etc. Like (for example being attracted to broccoli), similar to romantic relationships within female groups, at one point it was unthinkable that two women could be sexually attracted to one another. Newport rhode island with chauncey, people coming in and leaving, reason why, because there isn"t much surveillance. Summervile, the categories homo and hetero, around the time scientific racism is beginning, both sexologist and scientist are using physical observation to understand mental/spiritual capacity.
