Women's Studies 1020E Study Guide - Final Guide: Essentialism, Womanism, Feminist Epistemology
8 Apr 2016
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Seen as body making error but the gender spectrum is very broad and variable. Stigma associated with intersex variation: believe that gender is only a binary model. Issues around surgical intervention": reduces sensitivity, people reject. What are the benefits, risks, and disadvantages of this kind of intervention: doctors perform surgery, not because its necessary, but to fit children into society"s binary model of sex. Note doctors" and medical experts" reasons and effects with what intersex individuals say about their own experiences. Gender is malleable for 18 months after birth. * homophobia: dislike or prejudice against homosexual people. 19th century upper-middle class and large white ideal of women"s purity, domesticity and frailty opinion about women in 1800s stay at home. * muscle moll: derogatory term for women athletes, implying failed heterosexual desire and mannishness. * women"s action in the 1900s women"s athletic associations.
