Tuesday, October 22, 2019
Gender, Identity, Sexuality
Key terms:
- agency
- bisexuality
- cultural persona
- elementary cognitive processes
- emotion
- heteronormativity
- homosexuality
- naturalizing discourses
- norms
- perception
- personality
- prototypes
- queer
- self
- sex
- sexuality
- socialization
- subject position
- subjectivity
- transgender
- values
- visuality
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, Tuesday, October 22, 2019
- enculturation
- gender
- gender roles
De ning Sexuality
• “Sexuality is the complex range of desires, beliefs, and behaviors that are related to
erotic physical contact, and the cultural arena within which people debate about what
kinds of physical desires and behaviors are right, appropriate, and natural.”
—Kenneth J. Guest
What is Sexuality and Where does it come from?
- Intersection of sexuality and biology
- Sexuality and Culture
How has sexuality been constructed in North America
- Intersection of sexuality and biology
- Sexuality and culture
- Invention of heterosexuality
- ‘White Weddings
Sex, Sexuality, and Gender Roles
- Sexuality: an individual’s sense of his or her own sexual desires, orientation, and
preferences
- Heteronormativity: an ideology that promotes heterosexuality as the social ideal,
supported by the cultural de nition of “appropriate behaviour” based on culturally
de ned categories of “male” and “female,” “masculine” and “feminine.”
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Gender, Identity, Sexuality
Key terms:
- agency
- bisexuality
- cultural persona
- elementary cognitive processes
- emotion
- heteronormativity
- homosexuality
- naturalizing discourses
- norms
- perception
- personality
- prototypes
- queer
- self
- sex
- sexuality
- socialization
- subject position
- subjectivity
- transgender
- values
- visuality
1
, Tuesday, October 22, 2019
- enculturation
- gender
- gender roles
De ning Sexuality
• “Sexuality is the complex range of desires, beliefs, and behaviors that are related to
erotic physical contact, and the cultural arena within which people debate about what
kinds of physical desires and behaviors are right, appropriate, and natural.”
—Kenneth J. Guest
What is Sexuality and Where does it come from?
- Intersection of sexuality and biology
- Sexuality and Culture
How has sexuality been constructed in North America
- Intersection of sexuality and biology
- Sexuality and culture
- Invention of heterosexuality
- ‘White Weddings
Sex, Sexuality, and Gender Roles
- Sexuality: an individual’s sense of his or her own sexual desires, orientation, and
preferences
- Heteronormativity: an ideology that promotes heterosexuality as the social ideal,
supported by the cultural de nition of “appropriate behaviour” based on culturally
de ned categories of “male” and “female,” “masculine” and “feminine.”
2
fifi fi
