WMGS 5a Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Latte, Travesti, Raewyn Connell
2 Oct 2016
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Women"s studies -> women"s and gender studies -> women"s gender, and. Judith lorder"s night to his day the social construction of gender. Western society values legitimate gendering by claiming that it all comes from physiology female and male procreative differences. But gender and sex are not equivalent and gender as a social construction does not flow automatically from genitalia and reproductive organs. Individuals are born sexed but not gendered, and they have to be taught to be masculine or feminine. Conceal our sex, reveal our gender clothing highlights gender see documentary: kate bornstein is a queer and pleasant danger. You have judith butler to thank for that. Gender isn"t something we are, but something we continually do, opening the door for. Performativity consists in a reiteration of norms which precede, constrain, and exceed the performer and in that sense cannot be taken as the fabrication of the performer"s. Feminism a paradigm for understanding self and society.
