FEM 3100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Caster Semenya, Hegemonic Masculinity, Dutee Chand

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Women's Studies
• Course: FEM 3100
• Professor: Fiona Jeffries

Document Summary

Lecture 1: ontologies of gender and the gendered body as a. True masculinity is a lie (means different things in different cultures: ideologies of masculinity and femininity. Video clip: everything you always wanted to know about sex. Personification of the biological process of sex. Framed as a war scene/going to battle. Homogenous: sperm and everything working in sex is male. Emily martin, the egg and the sperm: how science has constructed a romance. How the egg and the sperm become stand ins for actual men and women: women/egg: passive, docile, alert (seductive egg, men/sperm: active (swimming, determined sperm) Science is changed with evidence, scientists revert to sexist tropes of femininity and masculinity. The egg as sleeping beauty: a dormant bride awaiting her mate"s magic kiss, which instills the spirit that brings her to life -gerald and helen schatten. Corresponds with a resurgent biology of the 1980s.