GSWS 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Leslie Feinberg, Gender Identity, Laverne Cox
27 Apr 2018
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Gender Attribution
- People think that you should just know their gender
- If you take gede attiutio, it’s usually i egad to lothig, ody stutue
Gender Role
- Fo a satiial hilde’s ook y akig oys ad gil’s play a particular role.
- Childe’s ooks hae ee hagig, gede oles hae eoled oe tie
- How we contribute the appropriate roles
- Gender identity: personal, its what we feel we are. How they feel between their ears
- Recognize that: assignment, attribution, role and identity are in relation to the particular
person.
- Leslie Feinberg: comparing gender to weather
o If we only have words like male or female or hot or cold to define gender or
weather. It still conveys something but hot in Vancouver is very different from
hot in Singapore.
o You have to make your vocabulary wider b/c theirs various aspects to it
o Approach gender the same way we would approach weather.
- Gender Diversity: if we accept gender diversity then we have to revaluate what is
gender identity
o Recognizing gender diversity also reveals the limits of binary sexual identity as a
framework for understanding desire and attraction.
- A shape you a’t uite idetify ad hae o ods fo
Cisnormative Gaze
- Cis = on the same side
- Trans = across traverse on the other side
- Terminology
- First person to coin it Sereno, shes usually the terms to reflect what is happening
- To be trans is having all of those components lined up in the other side
- Its there to distinguish what is what
- If people hae ee sho to you i a patiula ay, e do’t see a diffeee
History of trans representations in the media
- As spectacle: trans in the media are always seen as the victim or killer or dead
o They dehumanize these people
o Mainstream represent is fictional
- Unseeing the cosnormative gaze – / you’e ee eouteed the, you ill alays
have this misconceptions.
- TALKING BACK: Laverne Cox on the Katie Couric Show (was very rude, asked very rude
questions but Laverne shut it down. And she came back and Katie apologized)
- Eeyoe’s gede is ofusig
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