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Intro WGSS Final
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Venus Extravaganza | Essentialist, wanted to be a passing complete woman. |
| Pepper LaBeija | Social Constructivist, talked about how balls were places where people could perform different genders and classes. |
| Early 1800's | Same sex acts were committed, but there was no being "gay". Behavior was judged as a sin or a criminal act, not affecting the type of person you were. Because there was no independence from family, it was survival. |
| Late 1800's | Increased repression because of rise of cities, people could live outside of a family. |
| Early 1900's | Homosexuality was a disease and becomes an identity. Queer spaces exist but are criminalized, increased regulation. |
| WWII | Gay people start meeting each other and go to cities, lots of community. |
| 1950's | Lavender Scare, gay people out of gov jobs, police raids. Political organization starts but is repressed. |
| 1960's | Stonewall Riots, pride and visibility. Gay is public and political. |
| 1970's | Backlash by conservatives. |
| 1980's | AIDS, gays become demonized but also find more community. |
| 1990's | Born gay argument, historically recent and politically helpful. |
| Essentialism | Believing that queerness comes from ones self, and is something innate. |
| Social Constructivism | Believing queerness comes from outside of ones self, and that it is based on society. Who you are and how you label yourself would change from time and place. |
| Gender Performativity | People learn to behave in different ways because of their gender. Therefore they are performing gender. |
| Masculinity | Attributes attributed commonly to men or boys. |
| Transgender | Someone's who has a different gender than the sex and gender assigned to them at birth. |
| Repressive Hypothesis | The idea that we moved from a lot of restrictions on sex in the Victorian era, to a much more free idea of sex in the modern era. |
| Speakers Benefit | The self satisfaction and perceived emancipation people get from talking about sex. |
| Discursive Explosion | Modern society generated a large amount of emphasis and talk about sex. |
| Homosexual Becomes a Species | Coined by Foucault, it references the idea that people were no longer just committing same sex sexual acts, but rather that these acts affected and defined them as people. |
| Michigan Womyn's Music Festival | A large lesbian feminist meeting that celebrated women's music and culture. Infamous for it's womyn born womyn policy (cis gendered only). 1976-2015. |
| Compulsory Heterosexuality | The idea that heterosexuality is assumed and enforced by the entirety of society through different institutions. |
| Lesbian Continuum | Coined by Adrienne Rich, the idea that lesbianism expands beyond the idea of sexuality, and evolves into valuing all connections between women. |
| Sexual Essentialism | Belief that sexuality is natural, biological, fixed and universal. |
| Negative Sexuality | The idea that sex is dangerous dirty or harmful unless justified. |
| Fallacy of Misplaced Scale | Sexual acts are emphasized way more than other acts in society. |
| Hierarchical Valuation of Sex | Certain kinds of sex are valued more than others. Charmed circle vs outer limits. |
| Domino Theory of Sexual Peril | The idea that one sexual act will lead to another and will lead to another. Slippery slope fallacy. |
| Lack of Concept of Benign Sexual Variation | The idea that sexual variants that do not harm others are actually completely harmless. |
| Heteronomativity | The idea that being heterosexual and traditional gender roles are normal and the default. |
| Homonormativity | Is the version of heteronomativity for queer people. It is the idea that if queer people copy heteronormative behavior, they can exist in the same way. |
| Anselmi and Law | Essentialism and Social Construction |
| Lorber | Night to His Day- about how gender is socially created. |
| Butler | Performative Acts and Gender Constitution- about how gender is constructed through different actions |
| Jordan-Young and Rumiati | Hardwired for Sexism- a scientific approach that says gender doesn't come from brain structures, but rather it is shaped by society and experiences. |
| Jaschik | What Larry Summers Said- Thought that there were innate differences between men and women that contributed to the shortage of women in top science fields. |
| Pascoe | Dude, You're a Fag- Studied masculinity in high school and how young children interacted with the idea of queerness. |
| Serano | Trans Woman Manifesto- Trans women are marginalized not only because they are transgender, but because femineity is devalued in itself. |
| Halberstam | Trans* Feminism- Says that trans women should be centralized in feminism because sexism and misogyny affect all people's who genders are marginized. |
| Spade | Mutilating Gender- The idea that the current medical area strongly enforce the gender binary by altering bodies to fit male or female forms. |
| Foucault (1) | History of Sexuality- Modern society has created sexuality to be something of discourse. Sexuality is not fixed, but created by society. |
| Rubin | Thinking Sex- Sex is socially constructed and hieratically created. 6 problems. |
| D'Emilio (1) | Capitalism and Gay Identity- Gay identity is historically produced and not innate. Capitalism and urbanization created the opportunity for people to be gay. |
| Rich | Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence- Lesbian Continuum, comp het. |
| Foucault (2) | Friendship as a Way of Life- Gay men have the special relationship of being friends after sexual relationships. The sense of community in queer spaces overcomes normal relationship boundaries. |
| D'Emilio (2) | Born Gay?- The idea that people are born gay is a strategic and political one, rather than an actual innate thing. |
| Sedgwick | How to Bring Your Kids Up Gay- Talks about how being gay is avoided in psychology, education and medicine. Value queers, not eliminate them. |
| Duggan | The New Homonormativity- Homonormativity where gay people just try to match what straight people are doing and confine to the current institutions. |
| Cohen | Punks, B-Daggers, and Welfare Queens- Argues that queer theory should include more than just sexuality, but also class, race, gender and state power. |
| Roe V Wade | 1973, overturned 2022 |
| Clearance Thomas Hearings | 1991 |
| Miss America Pageant Protest | 1968 |
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