week 3

Question 1

how do contextual factors affect us

Answer 1

Understanding of ourselves as gendered beings can be challenged, destabilized, and problematized by looking at things from a different perspective

Question 2

what did Berghman examine (hint: nudity)

Answer 2

Examined how men and women aesthetically examine pictures of naked men and women and whether sexual conservatism affect these aesthetic judgements

Question 3

what did Berghman find (hint: nude)

Answer 3

female nude was always more beautiful than the male nude even if it was viewed as less beautiful due to sexual conservatism

Question 4

what are the contextual frames of the nude

Answer 4

art, porn, info, commodified

Question 5

what did viewing the female nude do for men

Answer 5

Reaffirmed heterosexual men’s sense of themselves of men

Question 6

what did viewing the female nude do for women

Answer 6

Women shared the view that men have a culturally sanctioned right to objectify women and triggered a comparison process

Question 7

what did viewing the male nude do for men

Answer 7

triggered fear of homoeroticism

Question 8

what did viewing the male nude do for women

Answer 8

• welcome advance
• attarctive but felt guilty
• overt rejection
  fear of inappropriate femininity

Question 9

what is meant when we say “doing gender”

Answer 9

Performative nature of gender
Differences created in men/women that are not natural, essential, or biological

Question 10

what is gender socialization

Answer 10

Process through which individuals learn and become aware of the different expectations and behaviours ascribed to men and women

Question 11

what is the sexual script theory

Answer 11

Human sexual conduct is enacted through sexual scripts (shared guidelines)
May be cultural, interpersonal, intrapsychic

Question 12

what is sex negativity

Answer 12

Unless its monogamous and for procreational purposes sex is negative
Sex has been imbued with more meaning than just a biological act

Question 13

what is the mind/body duality of sex negativity

Answer 13

Sex is a bodies thing so its seen as bad (we try to mask natural bodily processes)

Question 14

what is the fallacy of misplaced scale

Answer 14

fact that we place a lot of emphasis on sex and use it as an evaluation/determination of character

Question 15

what is the hierarchical valuation of sex acts

Answer 15

some practices seen as better/worse

Question 16

what is the domino theory of sexual peril

Answer 16

we want to keep the line of bad/good firmly entrenched because if one bad becomes good other can follow causing the circle (Rubin’s charmed circle) to collapse

Question 17

what is the absence of benign sexual variation

Answer 17

We are the arbiter of our own sexual enjoyments (some will be repulsed by the thing other enjoy)
non-normative practices being seen as bad rather than as natural variations