SXST 1600 Study Guide - Comprehensive Final Exam Guide - Toronto, Sexology, Rape

• School: York University
• Department: Sexuality Studies
• Course: SXST 1600
• Professor: Reese Simpkins

Document Summary

Keywords: queer theory, normalizing power, normalization, essentialism, social constructionism, heteronormativity, homophobia, heterosexism, biological determinism. The belief that normative sexuality is located in human nature, emerging from the body, it is the same for everyone. The belief that sexualities are socially and historically made. Queer theory goes beyond these points to challenge the whole notion of individual identity. qgh 28. Queer theory goes even further than this in questioning the whole concepts of sexual and gender identity, and the links between the two qgh 29. Normal and abnormal sex can usefully be distinguished. Queer theory goes beyond these questions to critique the regimes of normativity and power relations that such distinctions are based on. qgh 30. Process through which something becomes seen as normal or natural. Key point: creation of norm also creates abnormal/deviant. Ability to make normal= kind of power. Regulation of sex=key operation of modern power.