ANT204H5 Lecture Notes - Stateless Society, Billy Tipton
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These signs are arbitrary and different and interpreted in different society. Takes cultural training to make certain signs obvious, where it seems right. Correct uses of clothing to accurate portray someone"s essence. Billy tipton was a female who lived out the majority of her life as a man. Different cultural way to comprehend sex and gender. The idea of a fixed gender, male or female, one or the other; fascinating way to think about gender and sex, but it"s culturally based. Forcing people to perform in its binary, to make people go to washrooms that are for their respective gender, to make it true that someone is a certain gender. Modesty: what does that say about body, about sexuality, about how clothes cover the body, which parts of the body are sexual, what are cleavage, neckline, ankles, muscular arm; reveal to us the production of the body. Secrecy shame, erotic ; more incredible when it"s exposed, when clothing comes off.
