Chapter 2: Issues and Intersections Flashcards
Who claimed that homosexuality was a social construction?
Michael Foucault
Homosexuals weren’t labeled until late ______th-century ______:
19; Europe
When were heterosexual and homosexual terms coined?
The 1860s
Did the Greeks have a word for gay people/being gay?
No
Older males attracted to young males; sexual and involved educational guidance and military training
Pederasty
- Attracted to kids who began puberty
- An upper-class practice
- Expected to have a wife and kids by 30
Pederasty
Which country supports Foucault’s belief that same-sex desires, sexual activity, and relationships were socially constructed?
Ancient Greece
Suggests that schematizations must always be considered within their unique historical and cultural contexts:
Historicism
Which country valued proximity to men?
Ancient Greece
Poet who lived on the island of Lesbo:
Sappho
Sappho’s poems remain _____, not sure if they were about her/her liking women:
Uncertain
Did Ancient Rome have labels?
No
Always give the appearance of playing the insertive role in penetrative acts, not the receptive role with either female or male partners:
Prime Directive of Masculine Sexual Behavior
A free-born man would ideally only have sex with his wife or noncitizens (like slaves or prostitutes):
Rule of Masculine Self-Restraint
Where was having sex with a citizen considered shameful?
Ancient Rome
Which country didn’t have writings of female same-sex sexual activity?
Ancient Rome
The man who plays the insertive role is considered masculine; not truly gay:
Activo Sex Role
The man who is penetrated is considered effeminate and viewed as a woman:
Pasivo Sex Role
A model based on the gender enactment, rather than sex, of individuals:
Gender-Based Model of Sexual Identity
Where homosexuality, bisexuality, and heterosexuality are determined based on the sex of the person who is attracted to another and the sex of the person one is attracted to:
Object Choice Model of Sexual Identity
Marriage was an ______ institution: protected ___ and blood lineage
Economic; Property
Women’s close and sometimes sexual relationships (preserved chastity of women with regard to men):
Chaste Femme Love
An attitude in which attention revolves around the phallus or penis:
Phallocentrism
Erotic desire and emotional investments became necessary for marriage:
Domestic Heterosexuality
Chaste femme love began to be seen as unchaste and a threat to marital bonding:
Perversion of Lesbian Desire
Recurring moments in history when certain definitional elements crop up as particularly meaningful to understandings of eroticism. Different aspects of female same-sex relationships become more prominent in specific historical pieces:
Cycles of Salience
3 Recurrent themes regarding what we think of as “Modern Lesbianism”:
- Impossibility
- Insignificance
- Invisibility
Capitalism replaced a primarily ____ economic system:
Rural
A modern western conception of a person who engages in same-sexual activity as being a homosexual:
Personification of Homosexuality
- Widespread recognition of themselves as a distinct group
- Formed a community with its own cultural norms and practices
- Reverse discourse of the term homosexuality
Gay Identity as a Movement
Shared inherited biological features (how they look) or cultural predispositions (how they act):
What people usually mean when defining race
Cultural elements that set groups apart (some consider it distinct from race but may overlap):
Ethnicity
