Women's Studies 2161A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Gender Variance, Heterosexuality, Laverne Cox

• School: Western University
• Department: Women's Studies
• Course: Women's Studies 2161A/B
• Professor: Andrea Allen

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Inside every overweight woman, is a woman she knows she could be : as if being overweight is the wrong type of woman. Weight is symbolic of being weighed down by life, not being your authentic self. You got lost inside the weight that you carry . Struggles aren"t related to health, doesn"t recognize differences between women who are 20 pounds overweight, or 200 pounds overweight. Since she"s overweight, she cannot have fun- being overweight limits you and you can"t be yourself. Term gained ground in feminism, started as black feminist term. Hollywood: popular black actresses are light skinned and have white people" hair (halle berry) than one type of experience (sexual exploitation: not monolithic: have more than one experience, and more. Instead of just focusing on race, gender, class, there was a push to focus on sexual identity, religion and geographical location. Using intersectionality to analyze categories of oppression and privilege.