WSTA03H3 Lecture 6: Week 6 Reading Notes.docx

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23 Feb 2012

School

UTSC

Department

Women's and Gender Studies

Course

WSTA03H3

Professor

Victoria Tahmasebi

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Judith lorber chapter 12 (postmodern feminism and queer theory) y sources of gender inequality: The belief that gender and sexuality are fixed and inevitable. Cultural and individual replication of normative gender and sexual behaviour y politics: Constantly questioning what is supposedly normal about gender and sexuality. Demonstrating the fluidity of gender and sexual boundaries. Queering subverting binary gender and sexual categories. Fighting for gay and transgender rights y critique: Postmodern free agency and queering have a narrow, individualistic scope. Too little attention is paid to structural and institutional controls over behaviour. Emphasis on individual acts of transgression does not change gender constraints y contributions: The concept of performativity gender does not exist without gender display. Deconstruction making visible the gender and sexual performances in what is considered normal and natural. Queer theory challenging the gender, sex, and sexual binaries with multiple sexualities and transgendering.

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based on chapter 3 of sexualities in context,

Plante distinguishes between the techniques by which transgendered individuals achieve a gender and the way in which gender expression comes more naturally for others.

	True
	False


Hint: Consider what Plante says about how gender is performed.

The natural sciences, as opposed to the social sciences, can achieve objectivity because they do not require interpretation of data and deal only with natural, given objects.

	True
	False



Hint: Think about the scientific process.

can someone help me with this please

So, is homosexuality a choice? Many argue that being gay or lesbian is a choice the individual makes. If this is the case, how do you account for the variable physical and biological differences? I would like you to compile a list of behaviors that are predominately female or male and then determine if these behaviors are based on gender or sex differences. After completing the first part of the exercise, you should then discuss what criteria you used to differentiate between gender and sex.

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23. Gender-based violence in the workplace can lead to which ofthe following harmful impacts on sex workersâ lives?

		PTSD and Depression
		STIs
		Drug abuse
		Sexual violence
		All of the above

26.

How is the concept of the "naturalization" of gender differences used and to what ends (in academic work on gender)?

		An increasingly popular scientific approach that demonstrates that these gender differences are based in biology rather than social processes.
		A critique of the ways in which ânaturalisticâ (physiological) explanations of gender difference are supported by culture, mass media, religion, knowledge systems (e.g., science and medicine).
		An important part of the self-help movement that shows that gender differences are normal, natural, and to be expected, that conflict arises out of the mistaken assumption that such differences can and should be changed, a set of exercises meant to help individuals come to terms with their inner essence.

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