RLG314H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Gender Studies, Judith Butler, List Of Natural Phenomena
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40 points: response papers: can be an integration of all the readings for that week, relate it to personal experience; has to be informative of the week"s readings. Could it be a set of beliefs and practices, a cumulative religion etc. Has been appropriated into popular vocabulary - gives it a unique meaning: she religiously follows her team . A matrix of cultures; it structures every aspect of reality including gender. 1990: ursula king: argument for separate religious studies for men and women : religion was rarely used as a category for analysis. It"s a social construction with social expectations as guiding behaviors. It"s a political category who can do what (e. g. voting) Root is: genare (to begin), gener (race or kind) French and spanish genero and genre: nothing to do with sexuality. Words close to gender are implicated in kinship, race, nationality.
