NSG 3301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Cathy J. Cohen, Judith Butler, Heteronormativity
16 May 2020
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Impossible to think about sexuality and gender identity without thinking about race and racialization. Cathy cohen: critiques those who don"t take an intersectional approach to sexuality, concerned about the focus on sexuality with no attention to racism, master"s tools to dismantle the master"s house. Interested in women whose sexuality may be understood not to fit normative frameworks because of their class and race position. Gender is socially constructed: often sex is taken as a biological given, susan stryker challenging this assumption by saying that biological sex can be attained by following certain procedures. Transgender feminism: stryker: asking the question: what might transgender feminism look like, stryker has a number of answers to this question. The problem of documentation: talking here specifically about the difficulty of living in a society where so much depends on documentation, trans feminism about the importance of coalitions and organization across difference.
