WGST 1808 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Pansexuality, Genderqueer, Heterosexuality

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

Document Summary

Heterosexuality: attracted to a gender other than your own. Pansexuality: a person experiences attraction regardless of gender, genitals, etc. Belief that sports enhance national and moral character. The gay games /the outgames , goal is to promote inclusion and participation. History of courtship (19th century) and dating (20th century): sex for procreation, victorian double standard. Specimen types: an example that serves to anchor the de ning features of that particular organism. Social types: myers-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 xes. Different and limiting expectations for boys and girls . Daddy"s boy/girl = positive, versus mama"s girl/boy = negative. Androcentrism: male-centeredness, woman/girls appear less (than) human, the other . Gender polarization: thinking in very oppositional terms, (ie. boys are better at math vs art, and vice versa for girls.