KINE 1000 Lecture Notes - Hegemonic Masculinity, Heteronormativity, Heterosexism

• School: York University
• Department: Kinesiology & Health Science
• Course: KINE 1000
• Professor: Kuk/ Riddell

Document Summary

Every individual should have the right to enjoy their bodies through physical activity. Activity in physical environment is conflicted for minorities (gay men) Fun, reveal menstrual cramps ( endorphins released through orgasm reveal pain temporarily) Some sexuality normal and natural / abnormal unnatural. Bodies are sites in which power is exercised. Truths are produced based on knowledge (or ideas) that come together around particular norms (this is termed discourse) (proper way of sexuality) The body becomes regulated around normative standards if you don"t live in this proper norms you are abnormal. Truth is mobilized in relations of power in ways that affect how bodies are produced bodies confirm to those norms easier life. @ logical extension heterosexuality heterosexual matrix there are some way of living with this way of thinking , other ways unintelligable judith butler) The point: traditional way of thinking of sexuality need to be changed because !