FEM 2110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Erving Goffman

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Women's Studies
• Course: FEM 2110
• Professor: Lori Stinson

Document Summary

Ability to recognize someone as male or female effects our interactions w/ them. Endogenous: doesn"t t into male or female. Erving goffman: there is nothing natural about gender identity it is part of a process where we learn to take on attributes that we think are appropriate for our gender terms. We need to rst identify diff between sex and gender. Middle sex: their own understanding of their genes ex: he & she in india. We have to learn to send signals to others for how we want to be identi ed by. Gender display: the process whereby we perform the roles expected of us. Code: 1. refers to a shorthand language that everyone shares. 2. set of rules, ex: a code of behaviour. Advertisements reference a deep aspect of gender identity. Ads look normal to us until we stare at them very carefully.