SOSC 1900 Lecture Notes - Miscegenation, Voyeurism, Wild Beasts

• School: York University
• Department: Social Science
• Course: SOSC 1900
• Professor: Nadiah Habib

Document Summary

First we will finish the lecture on masculinities. [ideas do not die, they come back to us in new ways] We will be looking at how sex and sexuality are racialized through stuart hall"s work on stereotypes how their rationalized . But first let me begin with what richard dyer tells us in his article for this week regarding stereotypes. Stereotypes are highly charged with feelings that are attached to them. Dyer argues that stereotypes accomplish a number of tasks, and although when we advance that someone is stereotyping we often mean that someone is advancing a negative representation, stereotypes are not only to be understood as performing negative functions. Hes probably very smart < not a negative stereotype, or. Now according to stuart hall stereotypes have 4 functions. 4. the construction of otherness and exclusion stereotyping and power the role of fantasy fetishism.