Sexualities: Gendered Desires

Question 1

Body dissatisfaction expressed by women over their physical appearance, in particular their weight, aging is now considered…(whatis this called?)

Answer 1

…to be the norm rather than the exception. This is called normative discontent.

Question 2

one’s endorsement of one’s own body image that is influenced by gender stereotypes

Answer 2

Gendered Self-Schema

Question 3

Obsessive thinking over one or more perceived defects or flaws in appearance. men & women experience this similarity.

Answer 3

Body Dysmorphic Disorder

Question 4

What are men versus women more concerned with regarding body dysmorphic disorder

Answer 4

1. women: skin, stomach, butt
2. men: genitals, body build, and hair

Question 5

Not the same as body dysmorphia. The focus here is on gender performance, expression and identity

Answer 5

gender dysphoria

Question 6

Sexuality and society from a sociological perspective focuses on: (3)

Answer 6

sexual desires, behaviours, and identities

Question 7

While sexual behaviours are a cultural universal…

Answer 7

….specific practices are unique to each culture

Question 8

Western society has always had what kind of world view of understanding sexuality?

Answer 8

Judeo-Christian

Question 9

1800’s saw the growth of a scientific approach to understanding sexuality. It maintained

Answer 9

Phallocentric: a male-centered view of sexuality. true sex was male intercourse with female

Question 10

Freud and others came to see homosexuality as a pathology. They called it sexual inversion. What does that mean?

Answer 10

a homosexual man represented a woman’s soul that was captured in a man’s body. This viewed sexuality and gender as being the same.

Question 11

the belief that heterosexuality is the only normal and natural way of relating

Answer 11

heteronormativity

Question 12

compulsory heterosexuality was coined by?

Answer 12

Adrienne Rich (1980)

Question 13

How does sexuality occurs at the interface between biology and culture?

Answer 13

The body is implicated by we also need to understand the society in which sexuality takes place

Question 14

represented patriarchal ideas about sex, divorce, adultery etc.

Answer 14

Hammurabi Code

Question 15

imprisonment of unwed, pregnant woman between the ages of 16-35 – “morality offences”

Answer 15

1897 – Female Refuges Act

Question 16

women could divorce men on the same grounds as men could divorce women

Answer 16

1925- Marriage and Divorce Act

Question 17

Same-sex couple from Montreal signed first union contract (year)

Answer 17

1972

Question 18

Husband could legally be charged with raping their wives

Answer 18

1983 - Bill C-127

Question 19

Reversal of the 1876 Indian Act provision that stripped Indigenous women who married non-Indigenous men of their legal status

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1985

Question 20

Legalization of same-sex marriage

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2005

Question 21

Supreme court upheld a criminal law against polygamy

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2011

Question 22

Gender identity and expression added to protected groups in Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedom

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2017

Question 23

Canadian government tabled Bill C-8 to amend The Criminal Code to include conversion therapy

Answer 23

March 2020

Question 24

Current Realities and Issues related to sex (5):

Answer 24

1. Satisfaction with sex and sexuality varies by gender
2. Declines in teenage sex
3. Mid-life Canadian couples report satisfaction with their sex life (66%)
4. STIs are growing – more common among younger Canadians.
5. The place of sexuality and gender identity in education

Question 25

What did Adrienne Rich (1980) essay “Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence.” consider?

Answer 25

Considered an institution that reinforces heterosexual relationships, from a male perspective, as the only normal form of relationship

Question 26

Initial ideas of homosexuality assumed that gay men were more feminine (gender) and lesbians were more masculine (gender) – early research attempted to reinforce this, however

Answer 26

recent work refutes this stereotype

Question 27

How many people + what percentage in Canada identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, and other sexual orientations?

Answer 27

1 million which is 4%

Question 28

How many people in Canada are transgender + percentage?

Answer 28

about 100,815 which is 0.33%

Question 29

Evidence suggests that sexual orientation can

Answer 29

change over a person’s life course

Question 30

who applied a scientific study to human sexuality and what did he introduce?

Answer 30

Dr. Alfred Kinsey introduced the idea that sexuality can be fluid and change over one’s life time - roughly 10% of the population reported being equally homosexual/heterosexual

Question 31

What institutions reflect a heternormative understanding of sexuality? (3)

Answer 31

• the media
• religious community institutions
• the law