SOCI 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Pansexuality, Gay Bashing, Judith Butler

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCI 1001
• Professor: Priscillia Lefebvre

Document Summary

Lecture 5/6: gender & sexuality identities, roles, & relations. * related concepts but different from one another. Gender binary meaning 2 genders (man & woman) Gender identity: identification w/, or a sense of belonging to, a particular gender category: cisgender: same as biological sex, transgender: different from biological sex, genderqueer: catch all term for not cis", gender nonconforming: refusal to gender identify. Judith butler (feminist philosopher: gender is performative. Lecture 5/6: gender & sexuality identities, roles, & relations: gender is created & recreated through performance, performativity needs to be sustained & seen by others. Includes physiological, emotional, & social processes lust, companionship, romance. Sexual orientation categories overlap social construction. Both masculine & feminine traits exist in all of us. Numerous sexual orientations & gender identities exist. Identities in the queer community: this is a near-exhaustive list (but not completely exhaustive, lesbian, gay, bisexual, pansexual, transgender, transsexual, two-spirited, queer, questioning, intersex, intergender, asexual, ally.