KINE 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Gender Binary, Femininity

• School: York University
• Department: Kinesiology & Health Science
• Course: KINE 1000
• Professor: Hernan Humana

Document Summary

Lecture 11, guest speaker on women"s body building competitions, february 13th. The bikini category: is seen as very sexual, has seductive movements such as winking, hip swinging, wide saga apart, exaggerating the notion of femininity, and what it means to be feminine. The federations that are in charge of this want to make sure that there is a visible difference between the male and female competitors: seeing a woman who has more muscle on her than normal makes people uncomfortable. Femininity: a socially contracted standard for women"s appearance, demeanour, and their values, there is a dominant notion of femininity in western society, ie. hegemonic femininity. Hegemonic femininity: its the most dominant, and praised type of femininity, it is idealized, and people strive towards it, its constructed, and based a lot around aesthetic labour, like long hair, makeup, long nails, Her research: what do the female bodybuilders themselves think of the competition criteria.