CHYS 1F90 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Halfway House, Neuroplasticity, Tomboy
3 Feb 2016
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To be male is to not be female and vice versa. To be masculine is to not be feminine and vice versa. Sex/biology: body parts, genitalia, natural: gender/culture: how biological sex is experienced, femininity, masculinity. Policed through: school, sports, science, pop culture, peer groups. Gender at and before birth, gender at play, gender in bathrooms, gendering lego. Gender borderwork" in youth strengthening borders: how do young men and women create what thorne calls opposite sides by. Gender in language: young women: slut, skank, tomboy, ladylike, bitch, hot mess, young men: player, dude, fuckboy, man up, boys will be boys, boys don"t cry. Feminine framed as lesser, objectified, lacking, sexualized: masculine framed as limited, in a box, imprisoning, many do not fit, gender much more complicated. Gender as hardwired: lise eliot 2009: weak science dominates debate, neural plasticity= brain shaped by experience. Something you do & is done to you. Repeated acts make gender seem natural, it is active.
