SOC 202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Judith Butler, Planned Obsolescence, Erving Goffman
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Stuart hall; gender performance, advertising, and consumer culture. It"s the repeated performance of gender which actually constructs the physical condition of sex while simultaneously hiding that construction. Sex: the reproductive, chromosomal, and hormonal organs and processes that place a body in the categories of male, female, or intersex. Gender: the set of processes and practices that shape our understanding of sexed bodies; the way a sexed body becomes socially intelligible that is a "man"" or a "women"" masculine or feminine. Gender is not something you are, it is something you do. See throughout history that women have always been in the shadow of men; starting from history with adam and eve with the rhetoric that eve came from adam. Our physical actions come to together and tell people what category we belong in and communicate meaning. Your behaviour creates your gender as people are always trying to correct you.
