SOC 202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Caster Semenya, Olivia Chow, Judith Butler
17 Jul 2016
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3 scholarly sources, can use additional not from rula but they won"t count towards 3. Put pg # in in text citation. Semiotics refers to the study of signs and signifying practices. Signs have 2 parts: a signifier carries meaning, a signified the meaning that is carried. Analyze text, signifiers, images, relationship between both: dog; man"s best friend, as opposed to friends on facebook, outdoors, no buildings, country road, sunrise, truck, facial hair. Characteristics of the man: outdoorsy, hardworking ,rugged. Sex refers to anatomical or biological characteristics of women and men. Gender; the roles and characteristics that society assigns to men and women. Essentialism: gender identity defines by biology, gender identities as natural and unchanging, gender binary, nature. Social constructivism: gender identity defines by cultural and political circumstances, gender identities as product of narrative, gender continuum, nurture. Was subjected to gender testing: evidence of deeply entrenched gender binary. Even at a biological level the male female binary is not distinct.
