SOC 605 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Plastic Surgery, Labiaplasty, Breast Implant
1 Dec 2018
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Defining sex, gender, sexuality: what is sex, what is gender, philosophic + medical models of sex, one sex model (1250-1750, two sex model (1750-present, patriarchy, heteronormativity. Nothing biological about sex (some women have more testosterone than men, and men have more estrogen) You don"t take the blood test; you"re going by physiological. Socially constructed categories of sex: male, female (completely made up by the medical profession) Janet jackson: breast implants, labioplasty (strictly for the male gaze) When the greek empire dies, the writings of the western world is ni the dark ages, does not come out until 1 17th cetruy does not happen, 1750. Michael angelo and davinchi- sporatic access to dissection of dead humans. Commissioned on salary, church supported them and church kept the art. First realistic association of realistic paintings: saw 60 autopsies, controlled by pope, all drawings are about studying the body, knew more about bodies than medicine.
