SA 150 Lecture 10: SA 150 11/28/16

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Sociology and Anthropology
• Course: SA 150
• Professor: Lindsey Freeman

Document Summary

Sa 150 - lecture 10 - gender & sexuality. Sex - biological designation b/w male & female. Gender - state of mind & embodied attitude. Often used to discipline thoughts & bodily affects. Denoting/relating to person whose self-identity conforms w/ gender corresponding to biological sex. Umbrella term including people whose gender identity is opposite of assigned sex. No necessity dictating that bodymind sexed female at birth will present itself to world as feminine in adulthood & no necessary sexuality to either sex/gender. Queer theory - rejects idea that male & female genders are natural binary opposites. Rejects idea that gender identity is connected to some biological essence. Became huge hit esp for theoretical book. Sold over 100,000 copies internationally & in diff languages. Gender trouble sought to uncover the ways in which the very thinking of what is possible in gendered life is foreclosed by certain habitual and violent presumptions -