Sociology 21 Midterm Study Guide
Part 1 – Intro
 Michel Foucault
 Early Sex research
 Beginning of Modern Sex Research
 Individual Sexual Agency
 Queering
 Social Constructionist
 Hegemonic
Chapter 2
Katz
 When does the concept of heterosexuality emerge?
 Cult of Domesticity
 Compulsory Heterosexuality
Udu-Kessler
 The Essentialist/Constructionist Debate
Epstein
 The connotations and contradictions of queerness
Chapter 3
Lorber
 Heterosexuality
 Gender
Stoltenberg
 Male Sex and the Aryan Race
 Sex without the struggle for “real manhood”
 Three of the most important decisions about your sexuality that you can make
Ortiz-Cofer
 Mixed Cultural Signals and stereotypes
 The myth of the Hispanic menial and another famous stereotype
Chapter 5
Messner
 “Studying Up”
 Why did Messner find Timmy attractive on that first day of practice
 Herbert Marcuse
Rust
 Why do ethnic minorities cling to culture more than European-Americans
 The emphasis on family and ethnic oppression
Humphreys
 What is a tearoom?
 Marital status in tearooms
Lim-Hing
 The model minority stereotype
 The fundamental difference between racism and homophobia
Devour
 Ellis and Krafft-Ebing’s view of lesbians
 How does homophobia interfere with lesbian activates and identity
Chapter 1
Stelle
 Constructionist view of sex and the sexual
 Constructionist perspective and male sexual aggression
Tiefer
 Sexual kissing
 Oceanic kissing
 The Romans three kinds of kissing
Stearns
 Young’s theory about breastfeeding
 Breastfeeding in front male family and friends
Giuffree and Williams
 Compulsory Jocularity
 When did restaurant workers label their experiences as sexual harassment
Chapter 4
Cancian
 An alternative, androgynous perspective on love
 Gilligan and devaluing love
Seidman
 The Victorian Standard
Jackson
 According to feminist scholars Kollontai and Firestone’s theory of romantic love
 Jackson’s theory on emotions
Chapter 7
Barrie
 Berry: mainstream media and society’s central institution
Durham
 Single most important theme that emerged from the data
 Iconic Femininity
Schippers
 The five main themes that emerged from Schippers’ observations
Chapter 8
D’Emilio
 Individuals connection to wage labor, independence from the family and the
ability to practice homosexual desire
 Who is the scapegoat for the social instability of the system
Martin and Collison
 Kimmel: for whose benefit do most men sexually harass women
 Men’s power in organizations
Dudash
 True sexual liberation
 Several dancers who viewed their work as political and how they practiced
resistance to gender ideology