AN341 Lecture Notes - Mary Douglas, Umber, Filiation
Document Summary
Grounded in the body but meanings are to be understood within public, Historically specific variable across time and space: flexibility about how one expressed their sexuality, sexuality was accommodated, victorian ideas of sexuality silenced it. Conceptualization of sexuality create sexual categories as normal". The sex of person one partner with defines one"s identity: ones sexuality defines ones gender, curiosities made people break the rules because they were contained at first. Such categorization makes management of sexuality necessary. Constructions along the axes of: knowledge, power of regulation, creating, and sexual subjects: give power to humans and then take it away through containment. Mary douglas- body as metaphor for society; reflects social and concerns and anxieties about social boundaries: the body as a model for society. Social pollution: external boundaries, internal lines, margins of lines. Power and danger inheres in above/societal spaces. Woman is seen as a gatekeeper who can either pollute a social group or keep the behaviour regulated.