SOC263H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Compulsory Heterosexuality, Hegemonic Masculinity, Heterosexuality
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)t wasn"t an activity but an actual person. Gender and the body: (cid:498)throwing like a girl(cid:499): violent punishment, producing hegemonic masculinity and emphasized femininity to push out those who. Isolation, instead of a use of the entire body. Floyd mayweather jr. & maria sharapova: the highest paid male and female athlete in the world (2015: wage gap is further exaggerated in professional sports, she made 1/10th of what mayweather made, sponsorship deals. In ads she is wearing a lot of makeup, no sweat, hair nice. In men ads they are physically doing things and women ads as models (exaggerating their femininity over their skill) Caster semanya, 2009 olympics track golden medalist: re-establishing femininity-runner. In the past they use to check genitals, now they check your genetics: tested for being a women, she had higher than normal testosterone, magazine-her adherence to feminine beauty standards (she had to acquire her femininity) The iron maiden: the impossible standard of beauty.
