Emphasizes how traditional understandings are functional for individuals, their families, and society
The conflict perspective
Focuses on how structures of power subordinate women, people who are gender non-conforming, and those who are sexual minorities.
The interactionist perspective
Says that varied experiences emerge from our understandings of sex, gender, and sexualities, which develop through out interactions with others
Feminist perspective
Explains differential experiences various ways, ranging from an emphasis on creating a post-gender society to drawing action\ to the different experiences of divers groups of women
Postmodernperspective
Questions weather we can even speak of fixed categories of sex, gender, and sexualities.
Queerbranch - calls knowledge from the 20th century into questions because it is built upon dualism
