SOC359H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Social Construction Of Gender, Gender Trouble, Gender Binary
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Language and its role in gender performance. Sexual reproduction is one of least productive modes of reproduction. What is a performative act: enact power in society, not on people, language is important because we know that language distinguishes male from female. Demarcates human from nonhuman: people outside dimorphism are refused articulation as human beings; abjected beings who are not properly gendered, takes them out of the knowable and thinkable and human. Bigot uoft prof: standard english dialects and slang, and whatnot for everything. Language evolves through time, through cultural influences, french influence. Describes himself as neutral but really is a gender defender, defends normative conception of gender: autonomy. Constructing himself as victim, someone assaulting his liberty, assumed his liberty and self-deter(cid:373)i(cid:374)atio(cid:374) tru(cid:373)ps a(cid:374)other"s right to self determination. People killed and defense was people panic when they find out someone is ga(cid:455) (cid:271)e(cid:272)ause the(cid:455) thi(cid:374)k the(cid:455)"ll hit o(cid:374) the(cid:373)
