GNDR 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Gender Binary, Trans Woman, Gender Variance

• School: University of Victoria
• Department: Gender Studies
• Course: GNDR 100
• Professor: Heather Hillsburg

Document Summary

Doan article - autoethnography (oppression) she is a trans woman writing about the oppression she had felt through our social systems. History - these minorities have always existed and women studies began to challenge the ideal that history gets written by winners". Tyranny - one group wields power (has more resources) to oppress other minorities. Trans or gender variant people experience the tyranny of gender in lots of spaces and times in day to day life (ex. Walking through the park (public, semi-public and even private spaces reflect gender binary), in her home with answering the phone) Doan tried to modify her voice over the phone to sounds more feminine. You have to have someone to oppress. Who gets to rule if there is no one to rule over. Egg and the sperm (article) sperm=active and egg=passive and gender roles. When doctors describe their data they still use lots of gender to things that aren"t even gendered.