WMST 2000 Lecture : lec 1

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Women's Studies
• Course: WMST 2000
• Professor: victoria Kennan

Document Summary

sex refers too the biological and physiological characteristics that are used to differentiate between what we would consider a man and what we would consider a woman. gender refers to the socially constructed roles, behaviours, activities, and attributes that relate to understandings of masculinity and femininity in any given society. y because it refers to society it means that it is constantly changing. J. butler argues that gender is achieved through reiterated acting. "normal" or "real" gender while obscuring the contraction and instability of any single person"s gender act/ Gender is achieved through doing this over and over again these actions and performance produce the effect of a normal or real gender. There is contradiction in why we recognize ques of being male or female. To indicate or communicate by signs or symbols. S. hall - representation can be understood as the medium or channel through which meaning is created. Meanings we assign to something identifies it as a thing.