GSWS 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Binary Opposition, High Rising Terminal, Accord Alliance

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Gender Sexuality & Wom St
• Course: GSWS 101
• Professor: Lara Campbell

Document Summary

Key concepts seen as common sense : thinking about dichotomies and binaries, binary : de nition : our effort to categorize concept like gender (or good and evil) To categorize/divide on the basis of two opposing categorizes. Not only they"re different, they are opposite. Challenging binary opposition of sex/gender/sexuality (male vs female) : current people agree that this is too simple to t everyone in. Normal or abnormal (something wrong if you are not tting in) It could limit our imagination; justi es power to rule over whom are called abnormal / deviant. There is no working father father is supposed to work anyway. Men are excluded from caring : gender, the in uence of gender. Series of forces which in uence the person you become: de ning gender, gender as social construction. This is based on the biological part. Shaped by culture and history : not inherent: gender as performance.