SOC 902 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Dance, Girl, Dance, Dorothy Arzner, Girl Power
4 Dec 2018
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Representations of gender and sexuality in classic hollywood. From the beginning, hollywood has operated as a sexist and homophobic institution. Women were pushed out of key creative roles and put on screen as objects to-be-looked- at . Lgbtq+ people were mostly invisible both on and off screen until recently. Gender definition: socially constructed roles, behaviours, activities, and attributes that a given society considers appropriate for men and women . Sex : the biological and physiological characteristics that apparently define men and women physically. First wave (1700s- early 1900s: liberal feminism - focus on citizenship and universal suffrage. Second wave (1960s-1990s): focus on social construction of gender roles. ): intersects with race, class, globalization, male violence, sexual empowerment (girl power), etc. : sometimes separated to either isolate sexual empowerment and girl power, or focus on critiques of earlier movements. Women in classical hollywood: objects of desired that were fetishized by the male gaze.
