WGST 2100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Cold Turkey, Heteronormativity, Heterosexuality

• School: University of Windsor
• Department: Women's and Gender Studies
• Course: WGST 2100
• Professor: Dr. Richard Douglass- Chin

Document Summary

Sex, gender, sexuality: born, female, male, binary, like the other gender, like same gender, gender who you choose to be. 60"s- hippy revolution, make love not war, experimenting. Biological determinence: gender should resinate with biological sex vs. Social constructivism: interplay between biology and socialization, how gender is constructed. In grade 7 all the girls were getting rid of their body hair and she (mackler) wanted to as well. Girls feeling weird about the peach fuzz covering their legs (56) Guys at school swiped their hands across girls legs to patrol their shaving (56) Women"s body hair is dirty, gross, vulgar (59) Your lazy or undisciplined if you don"t shave (55) Regulate women by peer policing e. g. boys patrolling (56) Women get addicted to shaving (60)- scared to quit cold turkey . Scared to raise her hand in public- regulating body movement. Stress/ insecurity for a women who deals whether to shave or not (61)