Sex , power , culture final

restorative justice

opportunity for the two people involved (person harmed, the person who did the harm) to help them reach a resolution amongst themselves

body count

originally used for fatalities in the military (thanks Paul Tulane) → # of sexual partners

Mononormativity

refers to institutionalized rituals, customs, narrative and practices that establish the monogamous couple as the only legitimate and moral structure for emotionally and sexually intimate relationships

Compulsory Monogamy

refers to social arrangements that push individuals towards monogamous coupling we indicator of inevitable competes of adult responsibility and maturity

social model of disability

reframes disability as a product of interaction between boy minds and factors

metamour relationships

relationship to partner's partner

ideology of ability

represents able body baseline for humanness

queer practices

soin, reinterpret, and "make strange" the dominant discourses of gender and sexuality from the inside out through performance of excess, exaggeration, and parody

Praxis

the application of theory to practical action in an effort to improve aspects of society

body sovereignty

the power to fully own and inhabit our bodies as we wish. The capacity to determine bodily experiences and our boundaries of touch.

comparison/frubbly feelings

thinking about the joy a partner is experiencing with another person antidote to the sense of jealousy

sexual violence

tool in colonialism, oppression, war, etc.

queer

umbrella category for identities that are not heteronormative - odd unusual strange or eccentric

queering the practice of heterosexuality

woman, specifically black women, come out about their enjoyment of sex and pleasure

Scripts and practices

"Get some game" "Cat calling" Women compelled to be polite + warm not cold Celebrities + authority figures getting away with misconduct

Hookup culture: Liberating sexual culture (and if so, who is feeling liberated)?

1) imperative "shoulds" for women 2) emphasis on physical appearance (objectification, self-objectification,+ spectating) 3) orgasm gap 4) "get some game" → rapists blend 5) exclusivity + social stratification (sexual market → overvaluing/undervaluing specific groups) Phallocentric hookups Double standards towards women Virgin wh*re paradox

consent culture

a cultural environment in which asking for consent is normalized and encouraged and boundaries are freely communicated and respected

poly gaze

a lens with which anyone, regardless of relationships status, can interpret texts and social order to "see" the operations of mononormativity and to analyze what mononormativie is doing to challenge inequality

5 different types of sex education

- abstinence -traditional -tradtional w/ abstinence stressed - comprehensive -pleasure based

sex ed laws

- no federal regulation of sex ed requirements - Louisiana has no sex ed requirements -sex curriculum is left up to individual school boards, each with different politics and influences

polymorphous perverse

-psychoanalytic concept to describe children's propensity to seek a wide diversity of sensual gratifications from objects, their own bodies, and their surroundings regardless of social norms

"Yes,No,Maybe" chart

Consent is a value and practice at the center of all relationships Sex is about communication "There's a lot more that goes on during sex than just simply saying yes or no"

teaching consent to youth

Consent should be taught to children and young people in "micro moments", instead of one awkward "talk"

20th Century sexual Revolutions

Corporate America: Playboy Magazine, Birth Control, Porn Industry Free Love: Personal and Sexual Relationships should not be controled by the government Gay Liberation + Pleasure Culture: important role of pleasure and politics

sexual violence at Tulane + emergency strategy

Emergent strategy = emphasizes critical connections over critical mass in its focus on practicing small-scale interactions and just relationships that we seek to replicate on a macro level -Title IX office values: integrity, empathy, justice, excellence

Feminist Sexual Praxis

Methodology that engages in purposeful oscillation between intersectional feminist and queer research/analysis and action

queering

acts and ideas that resist heteronormativity by challenging the gender and sexuality binaries Drawing on queer experience and queer subcultures for knowledge about how power operates

consent

an agreement between people to engage in sexual activity (Sober and enthusiastic yes)

Rape Culture

an environment that justified, naturalizes, and even glorifies sexual pressure, coercion, and violence" (Wade, 234)

body literacy

learning to communicate openly about bodies, being attentive of nonverbal body cues, not undermining our own or other people's bodily experience

3 dominant misogynoiristic discourses

mammy- asocial, silent about desires, motherly jezebel- hypersexual, desires too much, demonized as slutty and rapeable sapphire- "angry black woman", authoritative, loud,