WGSS 1105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Heterosexuality, Human Female Sexuality, Identity Politics

• School: UConn
• Department: Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
• Course: WGSS 1105
• Professor: Vanessa Lovelace

Document Summary

Such concepts are contested; there are different discourses which produce different understandings of the social and the sexual and their presumed relationship to each other. Social = public: social relations occur in the domestic, increasingly private sphere, public"s duty to preserve public order and decency, mode of cultural production and social institutions. Sexual = private: sexualization of society refers to the public expression of sexual relations, association of sexuality with the private as distinct from the public sphere is institutionalized, public does not interfere with personal life of individual. Being homosexual is to be en route from the public as well as the private: told to go back to the private if they are seen as challenging the boundaries of public tolerance . World: the center for lesbian and gay studies reader: homo- and hetero-sexual coined by sex reformer karl maria kertbeny in 1868, homosexual = unnatural fornication.