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After reading the chapters in Part I you should:

 understand that the culturally dominant ways of explaining gender and sexuality are ‘essentialist’, locating gender and sexuality as ‘innate’ and pre- social;

 have an understanding of biological, psychological and religious variants of essentialism and how they have affected wider cultural beliefs and practices;

 be able to identify the hierarchical ordering of gender and sexuality and how this has been legitimated and reinforced by essentialist ideas;

 have knowledge of the ways in which first wave feminism contributed to the sociological understanding of men and women as social groups, paving the way for the second wave conceptualizations of gender;

 understand how and why feminist, lesbian and gay scholars have challenged essentialism;

 be aware of the variety of perspectives existing within second wave feminism and how they have influenced each other;

 understand how the stigmatization of homosexuality is interdependent with the development and maintenance of binary gender divisions;

 be aware of the neglect of race/ethnicity within second wave feminism and lesbian and gay theories.