COMM 3250U Study Guide - Spring 2018, Comprehensive Midterm Notes - Homosexuality, Michel Foucault, Feminism

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COMM 3250U
MIDTERM EXAM
STUDY GUIDE
Fall 2018
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1. Human Sexuality
The Politics of Sexuality
Recognizing Historical “epochs”: What’s in a name?
Ancient civilizations: Ancient Egypt, Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome*
Dark Ages/Middle Ages* (Islamic Renaissance) *Pre-modern
Early Modern Period – 1450s – 1650s (Religious wars)
Age of Empires (Scientific Revolution, Renaissance, Enlightenment) 1600s – early 1800s
Industrial Revolution and Victorian Era (late modern)
1. 1800s -> height is 1860s/70s/80s/90s
2. 1900sà Twentieth century: Modernism and postmodernism
Twentieth Century Timeline
WWI, 1920s, WWII: flourishing of gay culture in metropolitan areas
1950s – The Red Scare (communist scare) amid postwar “normalcy,” Kinsey reports,
Christine Jorgenson (first sex change operations) https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=17u01_sWjRE “Boys Beware”
1960s – early Gay Liberation movement, human rights, civil rights, feminism, hippie
movements (free love), Stonewall Riot (1969), Criminal Code Reform in Canada
3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZrQeNBMqOk&t=39s
1970s – Reagan’s America, continued stigmatization of interracial relationships
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1980s – Toronto Bath House Raids, Aids epidemic
1990s – safe sex campaigns, sex education reforms, popular culture and advocates
push for acceptance of gay and lesbian couples
2000s – continued reform, amid pushback
Policing Sex
‘The policing of sex’ à various ways that sexuality is organized and evaluated.
Regulation of sexuality
4. institutionalized expectations that determine sexual selves
5. possibilities for sexual activities and expression
6. Social concerns:
1. rise of population studies (gov’t, social engineering)
2. the regulation and recognition of legitimate and illegitimate births and marriages
3. campaigns for social reform and morality (respectability)
“Incitement to Discourse,” Michel Foucault
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vH8urZ4ryPE MCAT, Foucault: The History of Sexuality
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBJTeNTZtGU Who is Michel Foucault?
The practice of confession within the Catholic Church in Europe became the model for all
contemporary ‘tellings’ of sexuality and sexual identity
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Document Summary

Age of empires (scientific revolution, renaissance, enlightenment) 1600s early 1800s. Female clitoris removed (un)thinking sex: the politics of sexuality. Alfred kinsey: social science in america"s bedroom: alfred kinsey was an american scientist who studied human sexual behavior during the 1950s. Scientific racism the eugenics of social darwinism https://www. youtube. com/watch?v=jcbbupvng2i scientific racism: scientific racism- science to justify the categorization of certain races or ethnicities into different sexual groupings. The age of empire (crimes of empire) and the white man"s burden . Academic knowledge as a handmaiden to colonialism, sexual classification. Biopolitics, biopower the great white way and the colonial contest: biopolotics, biopower- european nations look outward, able to leave europe and go to different places and consider themselves as liberators, social engineering. War on the weak: eugenics in america https://www. youtube. com/watch?v=iah0ws8rtsc eugenics in america and forced sterilization race hygiene and miscegenation. Anthropology: the study of people and their cultures.

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