SOCI 210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Queer Theory, Transvestism, Heteronormativity
3 May 2018
School
Department
Course
Professor
Queer Theory CNTD
Drag
- Resistance to heteronormativity (both drag kings and queens)
- Implicitly (DQ) vs. explicit (DK→ more intentional when describing their own
identity)
- Symbols: Clothing, makeup, hair
- Behaviours: Women→ Submission, caring, motherly
- EX: Identify as a masculine female, under the category of NOT WOMAN
- My performance (dress, presentation, performance of gender) doesn’t fit in
the category of woman. So therefore, I don’t fit into the category of woman.
- EX: Nate Prince example (Rupp), WOMAN
- Masculine performance and still claiming the category of woman
- How is that different from above? The first one is upholding the category, the
second is getting closer to expanding and emptying out a category (queering
a category)
- Recognize the meanings attached to category as invalid but the category is
valid
- Masculine female, neither a male nor a man
- Clear example of queering gender, getting closer to image of dimensionality
- Shifts outside of binary understandings and the category is less predictive of a
certain set of experiences
- EX: (Rupp and Taylor, p. 238)
Language and Identity — Connections to Queer Theory
- Kirkland (2006) RE: Reification of identities in policy/ law (p. 98)
- Context
- Discrimination at work
- Transgender discrimination as sex discrimination
- Critique of trying gender ID to biological sex binary (M/F)
- No separate recognition of gender identity, it’s treated the same as
sex
- Biological sex is being sued as vehicle to protect people who are
discriminated against gender identification
- Smith won the case
- Meanings attached to these categories
- Smith’s failure to conform to sex stereotypes to how a “male” should
look/ behave was the driving force behind the discrimination
- Should gender and sex discrimination be different tests before the law?
- Sex discrimination (biological) vs. gender discrimination
Transgender Identity — Connections to Queer Theory
- Terminology — Transvestite vs. Transsexual vs. Transgender
- Transvestite
- Early 20th Century
- Eccentricity/ preference/ disorder? (ICD: Fetishistic Transvestism)
- Transsexual
Document Summary
Resistance to heteronormativity (both drag kings and queens) Implicitly (dq) vs. explicit (dk more intentional when describing their own identity) Ex: identify as a masculine female, under the category of not woman. My performance (dress, presentation, performance of gender) doesn"t fit in the category of woman. So therefore, i don"t fit into the category of woman. Masculine performance and still claiming the category of woman. The first one is upholding the category, the second is getting closer to expanding and emptying out a category (queering a category) Recognize the meanings attached to category as invalid but the category is valid. Masculine female, neither a male nor a man. Clear example of queering gender, getting closer to image of dimensionality. Shifts outside of binary understandings and the category is less predictive of a certain set of experiences. Language and identity connections to queer theory. Kirkland (2006) re: reification of identities in policy/ law (p. 98)
