POL378H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Susan Stryker, Michel Foucault, Chastity
Document Summary
Scientific racism & the emergence of the homosexual body - somerville. Medical literature was one of the only places that engaged with sexuality. Invention of homosexual emerged at same time as exploration of race. Problem of religion and labour somewhat resolved - turned to question of sex. Structures and methodologies used to examine race fueled scientific inquiry into homosexuality. Invert is visually distinguishable from the normal body through anatomical markers (just like sexes) Readings of body used to justify social / economic disenfranchisement. Popular racist mythology focused on supposed difference between dick size. Locating differences through sexual characteristics of female body. How black women had different sexual features (butt) Sexual purity of white women vs easiness of black. Interracial homosexual relationships - which was the problem. Race as visual marker for sexual nature of liaisons. Calculus of costs and benefits through which biologists capacities of a population are optimally managed for state or state-like ends.
