SOCB51H3 Chapter Notes -Family Values, Heterosexuality, Jonathan Ned Katz
Document Summary
Study in 1940s and 1950s makes apparent the counter to the gains made by feminists gay men and lesbians over the past two decades. During the postwar years young people were targets of formal and informal sex education materials where mainstream sexual norms were reproduced and constituted. Discourses across to foucault crystallize into institutions they inform individual behavior that act as grids for the perception and evaluation of things. In analyzing discourses one investigates the various processes language and social practices which make possible the statement of the truths that order our social world for instance the claim that heterosexuality is the most natural form of sexual expression. The term homosexuality was coined in 1868 by german sodomy-law reformer karl maria. In his usage the term referred not to sexual object choice as it does now but to gender inversion that is to effeminancy exhibited by men ad masculine demenour exhibited by women.
