WGS200Y5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Jacques Lacan, Viola Desmond, Nuclear Family
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Coming to terms: 2013: 7 billion and counting, relatively equal in number, men and women, differs in age: more women than men past 54 years, differs in location: less equal in poorer regions, more women than men die. Sex: biological differences, demographic measure (category, what"s between your legs . Gender: culturally constructed, socially performed, cultural and social meaning, learned and reinforced through context, what"s between your ears , will change through time, effort and agency, how you identify. Sexuality: how people experience and express themselves as sexual beings through a variety of social activity and behaviour, practice of sexuality. Kinsey scale: sexuality scale, 1948, massive survey of american"s sexual practices, scale, 0 exclusively heterosexual, 6 exclusively homosexual, 2-5 varying bisexual responses. Indigenous approaches to intersexuality: two spirited people, living the spirit, third gender, multiple genders. Doing gender: quotes from lorber: as a process, gender creates the social differences that define woman and.
