PERLS304 Lecture Notes - Ancient Olympic Games, Welfare Queen, Neoliberalism

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Physical Education, Recreation and Leisure Studies
• Course: PERLS304
• Professor: Sean Ryan

Document Summary

The idea of race is a social construct category. There is a discourse on race, sex, gender etc. This article talks about the race, gender, sex and sexual orientation discourses overlap onto one another. Discourse works to construct truths about the world. Every discourse creates subject positions: sets of ideas about who someone is and how they should and shouldn"t behave, the truth about who you are is temporarily fixed within a discourse. Everytime you fix a subject position, you are entering a discourse. If a guy makes a lewd comment, and we say thats what guys do that is a subject position. If a guy starts crying, there are questions about your masculinity due to the subject position: subject positions are out there before you exist. The discourse makes them and all of us collectively create the discourse: subjectivities are the ways people take up the various subject positions available to them.