SOCI 1F90 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Sex Reassignment Surgery, Plastic Surgery, Extreme Makeover
23 Feb 2016
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Gender, class, race, sexuality, age, ability, etc. These relations are always in tension (post-structural) Example: legislation that controls women"s access to abortion or gender reassignment surgery (turned into a political process) Any practice that is undertaken to modify or maintain some aspect of the body, often linked to appearance . Example: military stripping people of entity (uniforms, haircuts, etc. ) Social power becomes a source of power. No neutral, universal, objective truth about what is attractive. In north america, we value youth and we hide aging. Example: we are bombarded daily with ways to fight the aging process. Today: 6ft. tall with 26. 8 biceps (dominant masculine form) There are 3 million women who do not look like barbie and 8 people who do look like. Now barbie is available in different body shapes (tall, curvy) and different races. Now includes humans with disabilities (in wheel chairs) Example: forcing standards of white women ( straight hair") on racialized groups.
