WGS200Y5 Lecture Notes - Stone Butch, Hypermasculinity, Drag King
17 Jan 2013
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Politics of invisibility connects to it overlooked, many ttc stations are not accessible to people with disabilities Disability studies: identity-based intersections with queer studies, women"s studies, gender studies emerging field. Rosemarie garland-thomson: disability studies reinvents the wheel. Garland-thomsen: need to add disability as a category of analysis in feminist theory. Disability theory adds to ft: lived body experiences, politics of appearance, medicalization, the. 4 aspects: system for understanding/disciplining body diffs, relationship between bodies and environments not all bodys are the same in various environments, practice that marks difference dis/abled, way of describing urself. Not determined by male biology (having a penis) Masculinity defined in relation to femininity - opposite of vs. like/similar to. Masculinity does not inhere to male body. Otherwise, all acts performed would be masculine. Argues masculinity exaggerates difference (race, class, sexuality) Fear of other men: homophobia and hegemonic masculinity. Raewynn connell, australian sociologist/scholar of masculine studies.
