WOMS201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Reproductive Justice, Gender Binary, Heteropatriarchy

• School: University of Delaware
• Department: Women's Studies
• Course: WOMS201
• Professor: Turkel Kathleen

Document Summary

From the introduction: explain the concept of sexual scripts . Identify 3 of the points that shaw and lee make about them. Sexual scripts are guidelines for how we are supposed to feel and act as sexual persons. They are shaped by the communities and societies in which we participate and therefore are socially constructed. The focus is meant to emphasize the ways they create our understanding of normal . Normal is historically specific, constructed concept emerging out of human communities. They are socially produced and part of regime of truth that reflect social norms and practices; frameworks and guidelines for sexual feelings and behaviors in particular communities at a particular time. Foundational is the oppositional binary of heterosexuality and homosexuality that constructs normative sexuality and shapes sexual feelings and expressions. By opposing heterosexuality to homosexuality, the former gains its credibility: what is compulsory heterosexuality? .