Women's Studies 1021F/G Lecture 1: Womens Studies - FULL course lectures
2 Jan 2017
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Lecture times: wednesdays 1:30-3:30 & 1 hour tutorial (lookup when and where my tutorial is) Office hours: wednesdays 12:30-1:30 pm or by appointment. Emails by the instructor and by tutorial leaders will be responded to within 48 hours. Please put course number (ws1021) in subject heading when sending emails to tas or to course instructor. Please do not send emails the night before an assignment is due! Biological diversity is potentially infinite and unpredictable. Sexual variability in biological terms exists on a continuum rather than as a fixed binary. It is culture, rather than nature, that tends to reduce sexual diversity to foxed binary oppositions. If sex relates to the functioning of the body. Sexuality relates to sexual orientation, and to how the body is read, interpreted, fashioned, imagined, constrained, disciplined etc. in the social world. Sexuality, in the sense, is closely connected to the category of gender.
