MDSA01H3 Lecture 8: LEC 08

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Feminist analysis -> very connected to queer analysis. Ex: violence against women/feminists is an unfortunately common thing -> like the threats against the university in september. It"s harmful for all genders: feminism vs feminisms -> there"s no one theory. [video] anita sarkesian -> one of the people who had to start over bc of harassment -> example of how media shapes the real world"s portrayal of feminists. Reality = feminism is diverse and doesn"t cling to the overbearing stereotypes. Sex vs gender: sex = biological. Either of the two main categories (male and female) into which humans and most other living things are divided on the basis of their reproductive functions (oxford english. Determined by the presence or absence of specific reproductive, physical traits. Often, but not always, binary -> male, female, intersex, genitally ambiguous/ assigned sex -> doctors make this decision: gender = social, cultural, psychological -> extremely complex.

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