MDSA01H3 Lecture 9: mdsa01 Lecture 9
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Discursive construction: gay particular kind of construction. Being gay is something we have defined: judith butler (b. 1956) Gender only exists because people act as gendered being. Seeks to disrupt socially constructed systems over meaning regarding human sexuality: meant to get people to ask some questions, disrupt hetero- dominant view, question critically. What is it to be human and the gender you identify to be: pushing to some aspect of our thought (social) Sexuality- emotional, romantic or sexual attraction toward others. Theroists work to expose the shortcomings of these labels and show how they work to support systems of social power and privilege political. Queer is by definition whatever is at odds with the normal, the legitimate, the dominant. There is nothing in particular to which it necessarily refers (david halperin, 1995, p. 62). What is a moral performance of gender: how do we look at and define that morality, right or wrong performance.
