Week 5 questions

Question 1 (3 points)

 

In "Sex in the City: Transient and Working-Class Youths in the Urban Pacific Northwest" by Peter Boag, "native-born" Americans* are described as holding fairly narrow, traditional ideas about what constituted appropriate expressions of sexuality, They saw any deviations from those social norms as typical of and even unique to people who were not like them.

Boag's second chapter shows native-born middle-class white Portlanders grappling with new facts that threatened their world view. Please discuss and explain in one or two paragraphs with a few examples from each chapter. Attention to class, race, masculinity, national origin will strengthen your answer.

 

*That is, people of Northern European heritage born in the United States--they weren't counting African Americans, or Indigenous Americans, etc., as "native-born."

Question 2 (3 points)

 

Without repeating insights from your previous answer, what did you find most interesting/surprising in this week's readings?  Please write a meaty paragraph or two in which you explain your answer. Remember to identify the relevant chapter (and page numbers, as needed) in your answer.