EAS100Y1 Lecture Notes - Sherry Ortner, Ovulation, Zoophilia
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If men could ovulate (apply to martin reading) Ways w/ which people produce political text & understand the world. Idea of male body & masculinity as active. Key ways to understand world as basic ways to produce (political) knowledge. Knowledge of one thing via another basic metaphors to comprehend the world all humans possess a gendered body to experience world. Natural male superiority is elemental explanation of hierarchy. Ovulation, menstruation, fertilization, testicles, estrogen, testosterone, adrenaline, pituitary gland, ovaries, etc. Taught how to read bodies experience truth . Body as instrument for proof production & experiencing gendered truth gender diversity vs. focal meaning / essence differences focal meanings to get to essence imagines the essence of masculinity/ femininity/ sexuality that reduces human complexity political practice. Homologies truths that prove other truths gendered truths reflect one another experience truths & act out truths heterosexuality perform heterosexual acts machine of truth production. Men associate it w/ culture (tools, religious texts)