Women's Studies 1021F/G Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Sexual Repression, Intersectionality, Premarital Sex

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Interdisciplinary field that studies the relationship between sexuality and society. Attempts to understand the relationship between sexuality and gender, race and class. Definitions and key terms: intersectionality: the interconnected nature of social categorizations such as race, class and gender as they apply to a given individual or group, regarded as creating overlapping interdependent systems on discrimination or disadvantage. Example: how anne lister"s sexuality was both enabled and constrained: prohibition: maintained by penal law; violating the law is a criminal offence. Example: abortion throughout history: repression: operates as a sentence to disappear; violating the law is not illegal but very taboo. Foucault would say no it is not an established historical fact but rather discourses about the. Sex + power does not = repression. Sex + power = administration and regulation. Sex is not policed but rather regulated through public discourse. Sexual repression is only one of the means through which we"ve dealt with sexuality.