ANTB20H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Gender Role, Heteronormativity
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For sex and the city ii, look at this lecture"s material as well as said and appadurai, do not use every paper. Khalid looking eye"- research to maybe include in paper. Orientalism is a part of the national representation of the cultural other". Auto-orientalism, is when people internalize the cultural representations that others have of them, we come to see ourselves through the eye of the other and reproduce this behavior. Said"s point was that whereas europe created stereotype of the other, the power shifted to the us, as their cultural ideas are global" and have a certain reach. Sex is biological and gender is a cultural constructed. There may be 3 sexes, those born with penis, vagina, and both. Gender is social/cultural construction of femininity and masculinity, partly taught and partly socialized. Gender stereotypes can lead to devastating effects: for example males are better than girls- in certain places, babies born that are girls are killed.
