WOMS200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Gayle Rubin, Sandra Bem, John Gagnon
23 May 2018
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Lecture 16
Queer Theory Part II
“io & Gago’s seual sript
• William Simon and John Gagnon worked at the Kinsey Institute
• They applied sociological ideas to sexuality in the 60s and 70s
• Argued that the social world produced sexuality
• Known for their use of sexual scripting theory
• Argued for 3 levels of scripting:
o Cultural/historical
o Social/interactive
o Personal/intrapsychic
Be’s Androgyny
• Sandra Bem (1944-2014)
• American Developmental Psychologist
• Preferred androgyny
• Created the Bem Sex Role Inventory (1974)
o BSRI rated how people adhere to traditional notions of gender
o Results would rank you as feminine, masculine, and androgynous
Black Feminists
• Audre Lorde
• Bell Hooks
• 1960s-70s – criticized the failings of both the Civil Rights Movement and the Feminist
Movement. They both laid the foundations for queer thinking and activism around
identity and marginalization
o CRM excluding women
o Feminism excluding race
Wittig’s “trage Mid
• Monique Witting (1935-2003)
• Pulished The “traight Mid
Rih’s Copulsor Heteroseualit
• Adrienne Rich (1929-2012)
• Poet and feminist
• Wrote Copulsor Heterosexuality ad the Lesia Eperiee
• Took a critical approach to heterosexuality
• Argues that heterosexuality is coerced through a number of means
• Heterosexuality as coercive and lesbianism as political – a way to resist the patriarchy
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