PERS 3460 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Bev Francis, Pumping Iron, Femininity
17 Dec 2018
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Central objective: de-naturalize gender and gender practices. Gender inequalities are the reason why women"s bodies are weak, and men"s bodies are strong. Australian power lifter challenges the ideals of femininity. She has been an inspiration for body builders today. Put the sport into a muscular direction for not only women and men. Pumping iron 2: the women debates about femininity and female muscularity. Critiques why body building show the gender di erences and how bev brought femininity out. In your head what you internally interpret the chemistry about your body. We form gender identities around the age of. 3, after this point its hard to change. Gender expression: demonstrating gender through he ways you act, dress. **both identity & expression are inter-related but they do not interconnect. Biological sex: objectively aspects of a person. Intersexual, can be both a mix of women and men. **people often confuse gender and sexual orientation together. Sexual orientation: this doesn"t determine gender expression.
