WMST 2000 Lecture Notes - Narmer Palette, Geometric Art, Femininity
27 Mar 2014
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On the road to equality --> joss whedan - equality now! ^why are we still living with stereotypes? it"s still powerful and becoming hidden in the mainstream. She"s nothing without him no life without this relationship"! Vampire culture - girls- no access to themselves! The notion that women are directed by their hormones, not their intellect ! Black widow - sex equals death to the partner! Buffy had many types of experiences and dimensions! Katniss - isolation, no strong women for relationships and discussions. Winning formula --> two boys and a girl (hermione, ron, harry)! Gender trouble: youtube video -- judith butler ! Butler famously theorizes that gender, along with sex and sexuality is performative. The performance of gender, sex, and sexuality, however, is not a voluntary choice for. Butler, who locates the construction of the gendered, sexed, desiring subject within what she calls: socially prescribed behaviours re-enacted from one generation to the next.
