ANTH 1220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 43: Judith Butler, Queer Theory, Cross-Dressing
17 May 2017
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Shows all the types of people in the world, not just western white heterosexual men. Sex is biological and gender is socially constructed. Your identity is little more than a pile of social and cultural things which you have previously expressed or which have been said about you. There is not really an inner self - we come to believe that we have one based on repeatedly talking about it. Gender, like other aspects of identity, is a performance, reinforced through repetition: people can therefore change. Gender: the roles that people perform and the values and attitudes that people have regarding men and women. Gender constructs: colours, gifts, jobs: ex: pink for girls, blue for boys. Cultural constructs: models of behaviour and attitudes that a particular culture transmits to its members: body posture, clothing and bodily adornment, cross-dressing, status and social value o speech styles.
