GNDR 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Royal Aeronautical Society, Gender Binary, Queer Theory

• School: Memorial University
• Department: Gender Studies
• Course: GNDR 1000
• Professor: Vicky Hallett

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Femininity: the quality of being female, womanliness. Masculinity: a set of attributes, behaviours, ad roles generally associated with boys and men, masculinity is socially constructed, but made up of both socially-defined and biologically-created factors. Transgender: denoting or relating to a person whose self-identity does not conform unambiguously to conventional notions of male or female gender. Gender: the range of characteristics pertaining to, and differentiating between and from masculinity and femininity. Heterosexism: discrimination or prejudice against homosexuals on the assumption that heterosexuality is the normal sexual orientation. In unit 4 you will delve more deeply into the social construction of genders and sexualities. Queer theory is utilized to dissect dichotomies of gender and sexuality, and interrogate the heteronormativity and heterosexism of western society. In unit 4 we delve more deeply into the social construction of genders and sexualities. Through critical examination of the impact of language, everyday pra(cid:272)ti(cid:272)es, a(cid:374)d the (cid:373)edia, the (cid:862)(cid:374)atural(cid:374)ess(cid:863) of ge(cid:374)ders a(cid:374)d se(cid:454)ualities is (cid:272)alled into question.