Women's Studies 1021F/G Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Heterosexism, Libido, Exhibitionism
2 Nov 2015
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Freud: perversion, inverts every person is an invert, anyone could have an experience that made him into an invert, sexual object (who) ,aim(what you"re going to do) and instinct (urge) Anne lister: (1791-1840) was a propertied, lesbian at a time when few women owned property and few queers were out; she is considered the first modern lesbian because she had self-awareness of her sexuality. Foucault: looked at psychiatry, health, and sick trained as marxist, philosopher. Repression: sentence to disappear (abortion: taboo but not criminalized) Multiple discourses on a particular topic often compete for the status of truth. Sexual instinct: the existence of sexual needs in human beings and animals , a hunger for sex (libido) Sexual aim: the act towards which the instinct tends what you want to do with them. Sexual object: the person from who sexual attraction proceeds who do you want.
