by admin | Aug 17, 2022 | Other / images of women
Heterosexuality, Heteronormativity, and Heteropatriarchy
Heterosexism is maintained by the illusion that heterosexuality is the norm. This illusion is partly kept in place by the visibility of heterosexuality and the invisibility of other forms of sexuality. To consider the pervasiveness of heterosexuality, complete one of the activities listed below.
Go to a pharmacy or other store where greeting cards are sold. Peruse the cards in the Love and Anniversary sections. How many depict heterosexual couples? How many depict same-sex couples? What options are there for customers who wish to buy a card for a same-sex partner? Have these options always been there, in your opinion?
Look at the advertisements in one of your regularly read magazines or websites. How many pictures of heterosexual couples do you find? How many pictures of same-sex couples? If a photo is of a man or woman alone, do you automatically assume the person is heterosexual? Or is that assumption so deep-seated that you don’t even think about it at all? Have you always assumed this?
Watch the commercials during an hour of television. How many images of heterosexual couples do you see? Of same-sex couples? Have these depictions always been there, in your opinion?
Go to the mall or other public place and people watch for one hour. How many heterosexual couples holding hands do you see? How many same-sex couples?
by admin | Aug 16, 2022 | Other / images of women
Heterosexuality, Heteronormativity, and Heteropatriarchy
Heterosexism is maintained by the illusion that heterosexuality is the norm. This illusion is partly kept in place by the visibility of heterosexuality and the invisibility of other forms of sexuality. To consider the pervasiveness of heterosexuality, complete one of the activities listed below.
Go to a pharmacy or other store where greeting cards are sold. Peruse the cards in the Love and Anniversary sections. How many depict heterosexual couples? How many depict same-sex couples? What options are there for customers who wish to buy a card for a same-sex partner? Have these options always been there, in your opinion?
Look at the advertisements in one of your regularly read magazines or websites. How many pictures of heterosexual couples do you find? How many pictures of same-sex couples? If a photo is of a man or woman alone, do you automatically assume the person is heterosexual? Or is that assumption so deep-seated that you don’t even think about it at all? Have you always assumed this?
Watch the commercials during an hour of television. How many images of heterosexual couples do you see? Of same-sex couples? Have these depictions always been there, in your opinion?
Go to the mall or other public place and people watch for one hour. How many heterosexual couples holding hands do you see? How many same-sex couples?
by admin | Jul 23, 2022 | Other / images of women
q1. Joan Jacobs Brumberg concludes her 1997 essay “Breast Buds and the Training Bra” with the assertion that “the training bras of the 1950s loom large in the history of adolescent girls because they foreshadowed the ways in which the nation’s entrepreneurs would accommodate, and also encourage, precocious sexuality.”
Do a Google search on one of the terms in the list below and report on a result from your search (blog, video, news report, interview, or anything else you find).
Precocious sexuality
Hypersexualized children
Corporate pedophilia
How does the training bra and all its implications foreshadow, as Jacobs Brumberg says, the result you find? How has gender been learned in this scenario?
q2. Body art (tattoos, body piercings, body reshaping, and body painting) is a gendered practice. Pick one common body modification practice in the United States and explain how it reinforces gender. In your response, refer to at least one of the texts or the lecture in this week’s module.
Readings
Brumberg, J. J. (1997). Breast Buds and the “Training” Bra (pp. 108-118).Links to an external site.
Steinem, G. (1978). If Men Could Menstruate.Links to an external site.
Mairs, N. (1987). HersLinks to an external site. (if you have no access to NY times left use alternative link here: Hers)Links to an external site.
Tannen, D. (1993). There is No Unmarked Woman. Download There is No Unmarked Woman.
BlablaWriting. (n.d.). “The Story of My Body” by Judith Ortiz Cofer, and “Never Just Pictures” by Susan Bordo.Links to an external site.
Walker, A. (1983). Beauty, When the Other Dancer Is the Self.
