WGS354H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Kylie Jenner, Hegemonic Masculinity, Body Image
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A gendered space that produces gender and sexuality. As a topic, the gym levels the playing field because it is commonly co-ed. Tends to be inclusive and usually welcoming to everyone. They gym is a body oriented space. We can use it to look at performances pf gender/sexuality: gendered history of the gym. The word comes from a greek word which means to exercise naked. Men were encouraged to go to pursue this idea called arete (moral, physical and. Homosexuality was tied to the gym and it wasn"t segregated or hidden. Decline of greek civilization and rise of christianity led to the decline in gym. Two of the ideas behind this was that the body is sinful and sodomy (homosexuality) needs to be denunciated. It wasn"t until 18th or 19th century that we saw the return of the gym in any recognizable way.
