GSFS 250 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Heterosexuality, Heteronormativity, Stone Butch
4 Jun 2018
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Lecture 8:
Paper due Wednesday:
Clear argument and thesis
Link it to one of the pieces in class
Use the reading as a theoretical framework
**talk about how the article doesn’t mention intersectionality and that’s a problem and
critique**
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Transgender: person who id’s with another gender from the one assigned at birth
Cisgender
Trans studies has really pushed for a move away from pathologization
Janet Mock clip talking to Opera
Balance of identification, how you’re identifying and the role of a person in the public and that
relationship
Readings responding to the medicalization of transsexuality
Discourse that people have the narrative of I’ve always been a woman born in the wrong body
Within one part of radical feminism there is definitely a trans-exclusion but also anti-transness
and a discourse of trans women as not being real women but being invaders
They saw trans women as men trying to break into feminist goals and tear it apart
Discussions of things like women born women- a phrase like in women only spaces that didn’t
allow trans people
Bing contribution of queer theory of problematizing the essentialism of gender theories that are
allowing for discourse- gender categories
Transgender butch- binary of feminism and masculine
Allowing a greater spectrum of what it means to be masculine vs feminism
Breaking down the binaries and complicating the narrative of transgender people and allowing
for a while when butch lesbian people assuming they were trans
Allowing for variance in more categories
Judtih Jack-
Queer theorist
Book on queerness and failure
Looking at these butch-feminist divides
Butch-fem as the way we talk about people in LGBT communities
People might be slights more butch or fem- how you’re presenting yourself
A lot of times it’s in the way you talk, hold your body but a lot is clothes and presentation
Also connotations of over presentation- over the top
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Document Summary
Link it to one of the pieces in class. **talk about how the article doesn"t mention intersectionality and that"s a problem and critique** convert footnotes to end notes hit insert go to footnote and on option hit convert to end notes. Transgender: person who id"s with another gender from the one assigned at birth. Trans studies has really pushed for a move away from pathologization. Balance of identification, how you"re identifying and the role of a person in the public and that relationship. Discourse that people have the narrative of i"ve always been a woman born in the wrong body. Within one part of radical feminism there is definitely a trans-exclusion but also anti-transness and a discourse of trans women as not being real women but being invaders. They saw trans women as men trying to break into feminist goals and tear it apart.
