Women's Studies 1020E Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Intersectionality, Ableism, Ivan Coyote

• School: Western University
• Department: Women's Studies
• Course: Women's Studies 1020E
• Professor: Sasha Torres

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The above traits are not biological but they are behavioural. They are interchangeable when talking about sex and gender we want to think of ways that we can break these boundaries. Sex and gender are often used interchangeably, but have distinct definitions: sex refers to biological characteristics, gender refers to personality traits, behaviours and attitudes attributed to or expected of individuals based on their sex. Ads reinforce gender expectations but creators are influenced by the gender expectations of the world. Ads for same product saying different things for men and women (example: women shouldn"t use biceps, but should show them off- for men it is about getting better for yourself) Ivan coyote: hair today: gender expectations related to business barber vs. Never make baby x embarrassed or ashamed about what it wants to play with . Children noticed that x was having double the amount of fun. Reporter is saying that it is giving a message that gender is bad.