SOCB47H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Hegemonic Masculinity, Combahee River, Gender Identity
11 Jan 2017
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Give a man a fish, he"ll eat for a day. Teach a man to use gender-neutral pronouns and he"ll feel uncomfortable with many popular metaphors. Gender performativity: http://sociologicalimagination. org/archives/18029?utm_content=b uffercca6f&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter. com&utm_ca mpaign=buffer, film discusses the stereotypes that are given to various genders, gender is the narrative we escribe to anatomy, not only an identity, but also a ritual. Gender as a spectrum in which enables more fluidity. Variety in genitalia - intersexed: medicine & disciplining of ambiguous genitalia , 2-sex system not always dominant, greek 2nd c physician sex and gender continuum, male and female same (females were outside in version ) 2 sex system as way to control / discipline bodies: forces a gender upon the body. How is the binary sex system an example of a general assumption. We have been disciplined to identify (male and female) symbols to understand which we belong too. Media, role models, how we are raised (nature vs. nurture)
