SOC275H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Our Bodies, Ourselves, Wheelchair Ramp, Intellectual Disability
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Our bodies are usually something we take for granted, we don"t usually think a lot or pay attention to the profound ways our bodies are shaped by our interactions with others. Also our bodies shape our sense of self and our interactions with others. Most of us think of ourselves as acting consciously and having freedom. Gender and embodiment: our bodies, our selves, our (gendered) bodies, our (gendered) identities, class exercise: Consider the ways in which we take our bodies for granted, and make assumptions about sex and gender, and how that profoundly effects how we see ourselves without thinking about it directly. Ideal female body thin, petite, pretty. Ideal male body large, muscular, handsome, strong, athletic, tall. In this context, an argument can also be made to include addiction as a mental health and/or chronic illness: they also include numerous gendered dimensions (e. g. hiv/aids in north america (affects more men) vs. sub-
