WGS160Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Judith Butler, David Reimer, Undoing Gender
29 Nov 2015
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Gender, race and colonizing knowledge"s: recap elaboration gender variation, Interrogating race, race colonialism and mental illness, 3 pillars of white supremacy, David reimer: raised gender questions, is it biological or socialized. Dr money; the child can be socialized into gender. Dr milton diamond: gender is natural, the base of hormones. Forced to watch sex videos, forced to perform sex acts with siblings. Judith butler (undoing gender) the gender was violently imposed to the child, the natural is artificially induced. Cheryl chase: they can"t conceives of leaving someone alone. These racial classification define how we are treated, how we define ourselves. Race characteristics: skin color, brain size, hair texture, facial characteristics, genes, ancestry, and bone structure, geography. The system of scientific classification, which is widely used in the biological sciences, this system tries to divide people into particular racialized groups. Race is a complex & shifting categorical system. Race is a cultural construction, a powerful one.
