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shannon · 10-30-2003, 08:39 AM

From my psych of women class:
Discourses are shared, taken for granted assumptions about the way in which the world works, that are used in the negotiation (reproduction/resisitance) of power relations
Holloway (1984) found that the two most dominant discourses are
1.male sexual drive discourse: men naturally have greater sexual urges and needs than women
2. have/hold discourse: women want closeness and relationships rather than just sex
buying into these discourses causes a lot of reprecutions that i won't go into because i don't want to ramble more than i already am. in general though, these discourses cause us to see men as initiators and women as regulators in general. so that's the power relationship that most people tend to buy into, at least certain parts of it, although there are other discourses that people buy into that oppose these discourses. personally i think that it's too general to really say one way or another, especially because power can be present in roles that you would never notice it in just because it's not what you would normally think power or control looks like.

10-30-2003, 08:39 AM	#9 (permalink)
shannon Psycho Location: Canada	From my psych of women class: Discourses are shared, taken for granted assumptions about the way in which the world works, that are used in the negotiation (reproduction/resisitance) of power relations Holloway (1984) found that the two most dominant discourses are 1.male sexual drive discourse: men naturally have greater sexual urges and needs than women 2. have/hold discourse: women want closeness and relationships rather than just sex buying into these discourses causes a lot of reprecutions that i won't go into because i don't want to ramble more than i already am. in general though, these discourses cause us to see men as initiators and women as regulators in general. so that's the power relationship that most people tend to buy into, at least certain parts of it, although there are other discourses that people buy into that oppose these discourses. personally i think that it's too general to really say one way or another, especially because power can be present in roles that you would never notice it in just because it's not what you would normally think power or control looks like. __________________ "When I look down I just miss all the good stuff. And when I look up I just trip over things"