SOC 345 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Essentialism, Materialism, Intersectionality
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The important comprehension that sexuality, class, and politics cannot be easily disengaged from one another must serve as the basis of a materialist view of sexuality in historical perspective as well. (padgug, 16) Sexuality is not a thing distinct from other things; to approach. Anti-essentialism sexuality as a thing would be an essentialist approach. Sexuality is rather a group of social relations of human. Only people acting within specific relationships create what interactions we call sexuality. Sexuality is a process, it is discovered, learned, practiced, and on going. 2) materialism: macro-structure of the society (marx) 4) culture = a shared way of life. Culture gives us a reliable, symbolic tool-kit. How are you supposed to look, act, behave because of the way society forms you to believe. The phenomenon that all these factors are together is intersectionality . Fits with queer idea that we have multiple identities that shape who we are.
