WOMENST 1A03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Herma, Zp3, Egg Cell
27 Feb 2017
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Gender categories are still real categories that we can mobilize with and against. Affects all genders and people considered excess , feminized or abject to the heteronormative model. A thing to which we ascribe a way to utter it and a way to understand its significance in our social world. I. e. the sequence of letters/symbols that is tree . Green living, fresh air, natural, nature, outdoors . All of these significations can be deconstructed and rely on ideologies about what is natural and what is fresh air and green living . Ideology: set of values and beliefs within a group (i. e. within a nation) As an ideology: a system that normalizes and reinforces gender roles and gender binaries. The ideology of heteronormativity normalizes heterosexuality as the only sexual orientation. Sometimes heteronormativity includes class status (middle class) and race (with an idealisation of whiteness) The five sexes (1993), by fausto-sterling: 2 sex system and consequences for.
