WMGS 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Craniometry, Mental Disorder, Vagus Nerve

• School: StFX
• Department: Women’s And Gender Studies
• Course: WMGS 101
• Professor: Nancy Forestell

Document Summary

An author, speaker, and activist who deals with issues of disability, queer and trans identities and social justice. He helped organize the first ever queerness and disability conference. The third edition of his book exile and pride: disability, queerness, and liber- ation was just released. Further challenges to the notion of normal" bodies: The construction of women"s bodies as abnormal and other . The construction of racialized bodies as abnormal and other . The construction of women"s racialized bodies as abnormal and other : The construction of disabled bodies as abnormal and other . Nature doesn"t create two categories, there is so much variation in physical and chemical attributes contributed to sex. There was a need to justify women"s place in society started using women"s bodies for reasons" of weakness and vulnerability. The categories aren"t perfect, but they serve an important function to see people as normal and others as not normal.