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Is sexuality private?

Foucault (1978) argued that the tamping down on sexuality only occurred through an obsession with it. Even the inability to talk openly about sex reflects the culture's real obsession with it.

History

Sexual orientation

  • Eros
  • Masculinity/Femininity
  • Proclamation
  • Political economy
  • Religion

Gender

Queer theory

  • All this is socially constructed
  • The sexes are not opposite, there are simply two of them at both ends of spectrum
  • belief system that it is the most “natural” to us.

References

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  • Foucalt, M. (1978). The history of sexuality.
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  • Stoler, A. L. (1995). Race and the education of desire: Foucault's history of sexuality and the colonial order of things. Duke University Press.
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Sexuality

What is normal?

Melisa Jaskova

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