Help me study for my Writing class. I’m stuck and don’t understand.
1. Heteronormativity refers to the often unnoticed system of rights and privileges that accompany normative sexual choices and family formation. According to Woolley (2017), how does the “‘common sense’ of heteronormative binary gender normalize symbolic and structural violence as well as the discipline and surveillance of queer bodies and identities”? (p. 91)
2. Woolley notes that meaning is constructed through culture and “social practices.” The following statement is informed by cross-cultural studies and based on anthropological perspectives on sex, gender and sexuality:
“… cultures, over time, have erected complex and elaborate edifices around [gender and sexuality], creating systems of meaning that often barely resemble what is natural and innate. We experience gender and sexuality largely through the prism of the culture or cultures to which we have been exposed and in which we have been raised. […] we are asking you to reflect deeply on the ways in which what we have been taught to think of as natural, that is, our sex, gender, and our sexuality, is, in fact, deeply embedded in and shaped by our culture. We challenge you to explore exactly which, if any, aspects of our gender and our sexuality are totally natural.” (Brown et al., 2017, p. 2)
How does the above statement inform or conflict with your understanding of sex, gender, and sexuality? Explain.
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