SOC 345 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12 part 3/5: Essentialism, Bisexuality, Gender Dysphoria
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The social construction of sexuality. (3rd ed) new york: ww norton. (pp 211 - 212, If religion is (misleadingly) imagined as a bastion of sexual repression, science and medicine is often assumed to be the path to sexual enlightenment -- wrong. Medicine has labeled homosexuality as a disease or sickness of personality. These institutions and their ideas have complex and sometimes contradictory implications for the regulation of sexualities. Science and religion have become the two key social and political forces constructing and controlling our sexualities. The link to eroticism to love and marriage and heterosexual marriage itself has been challenged. Our modern discourse has promoted the idea that sexuality has varied meanings and purposes. American youth generally agree on the idea that sex should not have to be exclusive to just marriage. The gay and lesbian movement challenged heterosexuality as an institution.
