SOAN 3100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Vise, Reinforcement, Genderqueer

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology and Anthropology
• Course: SOAN 3100
• Professor: Nichole Edwards

Document Summary

Anyone who moves away from the gender they were assigned at birth, people who cross over (trans) the boundaries constructed by their culture to define and contain that gender (stryker, 2008) Denotes a range of gender experiences, subjectivities and presentations that fall across, between or beyond stable categories of man and woman . Fill some space not yet clearly defined (think of gender as an abstract colour wheel) Gender identity disorder (old dysphoria diagnosis) dsm iv changed in to. Genderqueer often resist gender norms without medical intervention: challenge gender categories through expression: to challenge or queer" gender norms. Non-binary variant, fluid, pangender, androgynous; existing beside the binary? (colour wheel example: you don"t have to exist on the binary, you can exist some beside it) When is my penis going to grow in? . Feel like a bit of both, neither, one or the other, depending on the day/scenario, etc.