WMS 70 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Body Snatching, Extermination Camp, Scientific Racism
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First steps of homosexuality and trans being actual identities. Instead of simply seeing them as acts, people begin to understand themselves and their behaviors as actual aspects of their identities. Note how racial identity impacts sexual subjectivity. Pure, virginal, prudent -- black women portrayed as the opposite. White women are thought to be untouchable. The idea of oppression evolves from simply smashing down on an idea, and instead encourages thought of oppression and resistance in a dialogue with each other -- mutually informed by each other. Explain the significance of medical models of sexuality. Mannish lesbian emerges as a new identity formation as a result of anxieties about gender and class. Women lose authority over girls" intimate relationships (alice mitchell & Understand significance of scientific racism, comparative anatomy as a method, and theories of race. Think about how sexuality develops through racial anxieties, and vice versa. Death camp where africans were exterminated by germans 40 years before.
