Heterosexuality

Jasmine Thomas Kardina 2/5/16 Summary #1 Katz This article is about heterosexuality and it talks about homos vs. hetero and how it’s different in other culture. Katz goal of this article to get people to have open minds about the name “heterosexuality”. He wants to remove the idea of heterosexuality from “the realm of the taken-for-granted, subjecting it to the dangers of analysis–and the possibility of critique” (67). To me this article make the readers open their mind up to things they

In The Social Construction of Heterosexuality Pepper Schwartz asserts that heterosexuality is a social construct, we as a society understand it as an identity rather than a set of natural preferences. She makes this argument through the analysis of gender performance, the expectation for applause for upholding heteronormative ideals, as well as the idea of only being aroused by the opposite sex. Schwartz opens the article discussing how even as babies society seeks to encourage the rigid

role that each gender should play. One example of this in the social work practice is working with a family heterosexual where there is a father, mother and children in were this is the nuclear family or the norm. B. Heterosexism- This is when heterosexuality is the correct norm or the only sex orientation. System of attitudes or beliefs An example of this in the social work practice is having the understanding that as social worker we cannot be homophobic or

the centuries and the human created much great inventions and even explored the surface of the moon; however, one question still on everyone’s mind and science may have solved one of greatest mysteries yet which is: how did homosexuality and heterosexuality evolve? Many psychologist, biologist and scientist may agree with sexual orientation is output from a combination of biological, hormonal, environmental and emotional factors and those many factors that influence to a development of human sexual

“Heterosexuality is a modern invention” means that it is a manmade concept, and it is only recently that heterosexuality was constituted by defining homosexual desires/identity as the deviant desires/identity, thereby normalizing the heterosexual desires/identity as the “normal” and proper sex desire (Seidman, 2003). Heterosexuality has been socially constructed, because what it means to be heterosexual is different across the time: the contemporary definition of heterosexuality is linked with the

aspect of social life. What is this force, you may ask? Well, it is popularly referred to as Heterosexuality. Indeed, heterosexuality, as an institution, produces and wields tremendous power over the lives and decisions of social actors. It cuts through every social facet, safeguards and constructs hierarchies and orders along lines of gender, sexuality, race, and class. Incontrovertibly, heterosexuality is a fundamental organizing principle of our society—maintained through cultural productions

These rules create a phenomenon as if the heterosexual is a normative relation among sex, gender, and sexual orientation. A person with the male body should act as masculine and like female as sex opposite, and vice versa. Referring heterosexuality paradigm that gender determine human action, someone who change their identity, for example, a man who feel h/er identity is feminine and then h/er sex to female body, so h/er behavior should match with the appropriate rules of sex and gender (Butler,

Heterosexuality is a social construct. Historically, what heterosexuality “is” has been a synonym for normal. After all, according to author Hanne Blank, “normal is not a mode of eternal truth, it is a way to describe commons and conformity with expectations. (Straight, P.11)” A handful of people today, see heterosexuality as something normal, and anything other than heterosexual is abnormal and needs justification. This justification holds individuals back from coming out and being themselves in

Through the use of interviews and ethnographic data on a college “party dorm” at a large Midwestern university, Laura Hamilton’s article(“Trading on Heterosexuality: College Women’s Gender Strategies and Homophobia”) refutes the idea that women are not homophobic. Hamilton’s research demonstrates that heterosexual women intentionally distance themselves from lesbians, in an attempt to increase their status in the erotic marketplace. The party scene /erotic marketplace encourages women to dress and

that love could disappear. I always feared the day to tell my parents about my sexuality, and even writing this essay gets me nervous. My parents were both raised catholic, and have very strict views on the world and that includes the idea that heterosexuality is the norm. I didn’t start thinking about my sexuality until I was around twelve, and I was dating a girl for two years whom I became close to, but I never shared an attraction towards her. We bonded like best friends, but there was never much