WGST 1F90 Lecture Notes - Hegemonic Masculinity, Wgst, Masculinity
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Lecture title: doing gender: performing femininity and masculinity. | 1: gender identity: not the parts that make up your body it"s what in your head. How you make sense of yourself in your head. Dependent on country, continent, state, culture, etc : gender expression: the way you present yourself, and what those things stand for . It ranges in your daily activities that may change depending on your place: biological sex: the physical traits you"re born with. The traits you develop that make people assume which gender you are. Penises and vaginas: explain the idea of gender being a script performed on a stage: 80% of people considered suicide, half of them attempted it. Gender is one of the most pervasive organizing factors in our social world: key component of our self-identity, the basis for many of the c/overt unequal divisions in our world; justifies" violence, wage inequality, etc.