deviance and sexuality part 2 Flashcards
stuart isaac in 2014 believe that social problems appear / disappear owing to?
- government policy (anti-prostitution law, problem with it)
- newsworthy events (pornography, kid type it in on computer and they could see it, police raid of bathhouse
- noticeable social change (women getting right to vote, flappers)
- scale of issue (how many people, death, children envolved)
- voices (respected)
- advancements in science / research (media, doctors)
when you look at certain social problems in society…
you have to look beyond prostitution, a lot of unique social problems are connected to others
social problems are often?
social structural problems
who was the modern girl of the 1920s?
the flapper
- independent, young, urban women
- literate, empowered, left country for city to get work, financially independent
- had money to go and do what they wanted
- revealing clothing, makeup, short hair
- kept later hours, danced, drank alcohol, smoked, sexual activity (lifestyle very different from mothers, went to jazz clubs, drank, smoked cigarettes, petting)
- shopped for pleasure; aided by changes in advertising culture (newspapers, posters, invited male gaze in ads by including women themselves in advertisements
jane nicholas released a film about the flapper, what did it highlight?
- first film to focus on flapper
- starred olive thomas who died months after its release following accidental overdose
- connected flapper with drugs and illicit sex and danger of death
- first hollywood death to be sensationalized
what did jane nicholas’ “the flapper” bring about the media?
moral panic
how did the canadian race bring about moral panic?
- so much skin shown by women, get sunburnt
- sex trade workers take up room in hospitals that isn’t needed due to STIs
- immigrants from non-christian and non-english speaking countries
- healthiest men went to war, and now they come back mentally traumatized and physically injured (60,000 did not make it)
- spanish flu, 50,000 people died
- many soldiers who went to war came back with STIs as they were not given condoms
- many women prior to this wore corsets (not flappers), critical that women’s bodies were falling apart cause their breasts are sitting lower, every women looks different
how was the flapper painted as a folk devil
society projecting social anxieties onto flappers/women’s bodies
what were some of the sources of anxieties among society?
downfall of nation / canadian race
immigration anxieties
urbanization anxieties
morality anxieties
drug anxieties
women’s emancipation anxieties
social typing and sexuality (in relation to a flapper)
- description: flapper
- evaluation: not very bright, scandalous
- orrin klapp asked students to connect what adjectives described each person best
- marilyn munroe: floozy, dumb dora, scatterbrain, prima donna, phony (same words associated with flappers) - prescription:
- donica belisle
- catholic church: women who show their skin are living in sin; not a good christian women, jesus does not love you
- league against indecency in dress: demanded stores stop selling dresses and distributing catalogues, believed flapper dress invited sexual assault
what was the critical theorists position on deviance (subjective)?
- what are the dominant moral codes that people in power say are in need of control
- deviance results from the violation of dominant moral codes
what are the sexual behaviors / rules of christians?
resistance to same-sex marriage
what are the sexual behaviors / rules of doctors?
homosexuality as a disease (1952 - 1973)
what are the sexual behaviors / rules of educators
- gay and lesbian studies introduced in 1980
-resistance to teaching same-sex relationships and gender expression
what are the sexual behaviors / rules of the state
- sodomy laws - decriminalizing anal sex (repealed in 1969)
kathleen wynne from the state changed laws in regards to?
regulated the changes for schools about sexuality - social conservatism
what changes did kathleen wynne make to education?
grade 5: gender expression
grade 6: masturbation
grade 7: sexting
grade 8: same-sex relationships
what were the differences in industrial and structural marxism?
structural marxism:
- government changes laws to protect capitalism
- government looks at decisions they made
- was decision made for capitalism, or to benefit the people (capitalists)
- who’s interests were served when we moved towards legalization
VS
instrumental marxism:
- change laws because capitalists are pressuring them in some way
- seeking market access / expansions
- desire for the legalization of sexual deviance - pornography
what were micheal foucaults power reflexive theories regarding sexuality?
socially constructed knowledge and regulation (power) concerning hetero / homosexuality impacts experience of being gay / queer
foucault believed if you have a heterosexual standard in society (homosexuality deviant), will result in?
people who are homosexual to hide who they are as they fear becoming stigmatized
self-surveillance; self-discipline (panopticon)
power reflexive theories self-surveillance will make queer people?
pretend to be someone they are not, and that is toxic
- impacts how you see yourself and how you experience yourself
- you will always hate part of yourself, take guilt, blame, hatred to yourself
what is the criteria for determining sexual deviance today?
- consent
- fully present
- do they have the capacity to give consent
- age of consent - nature of sexual partner
- bestiality’s
- family members - nature of sexual act
- S&M rhianna “sticks and stones may break my bones but chains and whips excite” - location of sexual act
- mile high club - frequency of sexual act
- is it deviant to have sex 10 times a day ?
what is polygamy?
more than one spouse at a time
what is polygyny
male has more than one wife
- wealth impacts the taking of multiple wives
- animosity may exist between wives
- second wife elevates status of first wife
