SOC 608 Study Guide - Final Guide: Unemployment Benefits, Matriarchy, Honor Killing

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 608
• Professor: Kelly Train

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Multiple choice 56 questions (everything since the midterm) Sex wars: what were the sex wars, 1982 conference that was held at the banard college (new york, conference was held and was suppose to be about women"s pleasure and sexuality, gale. Who were the sex radical feminists: carol vance and gale rubin, pro sex and pro lesbian called the sex radicals, sex radical feminists looked at male violence and believed that there was no sexuality for women. Who were anti sex lesbians essentialist: catherine mackinnon, gloria steinem, adrian riche, dwarkin, all women identified as lesbians but all thought of what it meant to be a lesbian was different. What is adrienne rich notion of a lesbian continuum: she was arguing that true lesbianism is women identified women, desexualizing that identity, lesbian was a political stance nothing to do with sexuality. It"s desexualized lesbian expression that celebrates feminist theory, and lesbian is the practice.