FEM 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Nail Polish, Gender Binary, Heteronormativity

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Women's Studies
• Course: FEM 1100
• Professor: Mythili Rajiva

Document Summary

Continuation from last class: know the different types of masculinities for the midterm. Masculinities: active social construction: masculinities come into existence as people act. They are actively produced, using the resources & strategies available in a given milieu: masculinities created in specific historical circumstances vulnerable to contestation in which a dominant masculinity may be displaced. Paternity/parental leave, this shows the change that its less of the women"s job to take. It is vulnerable to change, to resistance, it can be displaced care of the child, it"s for both parents. Jonas brothers: their directed age group is for younger heterosexual girls, scripts of masculinity: masculinities do not first exist & then come into contact with femininities, they are produced together in the process that constitutes a gender order. The jonas brother"s video needed women in the video to play that masculine role. No way my boys are going to be like that! : parents gender their children from birth.