WGST 1808 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Blonde Stereotype, Heterosexism, Androcentrism

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Women's and Gender Studies
• Course: WGST 1808
• Professor: Debra Graham

Document Summary

Objective: racism, sexism, heterosexism, and harms of stereotyping. Specimen types: an example that serves to anchor the defining features of that particular organism. Social types: myer-briggs type indicator personality inventory designed to identify preferences within the parameters of 16 types. Stereotype: a conception of a person or group that reduces, essentializes, naturalizes and fixes. Stereotyping tends to occur where there are inequalities of power. Based on the gender binary: different and limiting expectations for boys and girls . Girls are better in art, boys are better in math. Viewed against this standard, women/girls appear less (than) human, the other . Masculinity crisis: men don"t like their bodies being fetishized just like women don"t. Nurses; john=bad nurse because he is male; amy=good nurse because she is female. Will and jack from will and grace. Well dressed, got a job, friend to all, flamboyant. Tourism= paris is the city of love.