GSWS 122 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Judith Butler, Sexual Orientation, John Berger

• School: UPenn
• Department: Gender, Sexuality & Women's Studies
• Course: GSWS 122
• Professor: Professor

Document Summary

Gender, sexuality, and identity: the power of cultural frames. Connell on judith butler and others: gender radicalism consists not of mobilization around an identity (such as women), but of actions that subvert identity, disrupt gender dichotomy and displace gender norms. Before sexologists created these categories, they were considered a behavior" rather than a certain type of people. 1533 law condemned all sexual acts against nature (eg. anal) man/woman, man/man, man/beast. Distinction between het/homo isn"t very obvious (eg. penetrated is gay, but the penetrator is not gay) Variation in the meanings ascribed to same sex sexual behaviour. > how lesbianism wasn"t considered a political choice, some women did see lesbianism as a more politically correct choice latino"s believe that the man being. Heyl: theoretical approaches to homosexuality: biological/medical, sexual orientation, labelling/social constructionist frames: ways of making sense of the world. People may identify a certain way without acting on it.