EN 2012 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Heterosexuality, Moodle, Heteronormativity

• School: York University
• Department: English
• Course: EN 2012
• Professor: Jordana Greenblatt

Document Summary

Star trek: seeks to make a parallel with the oppression of lgbt people, works hard to preserve gender and heteronormative ideas. All genai with speaking roles are women. Main male lead is the image of masculinity: heterosexuality and gender identity are conflated. Treated as intrinsically related; she feels like a woman, identifies as a woman, and is attracted to a man. Women are described as a social class rather than natural, defined by social position in relation to men: ike(cid:396)(cid:859)s hete(cid:396)ose(cid:454)ual (cid:373)as(cid:272)uli(cid:374)e ide(cid:374)tit(cid:455) is p(cid:396)ese(cid:396)(cid:448)ed at all (cid:272)osts. Leaves little space for speculation on the implications of. Riker if he was attracted to a non-gendered being as she is now revealed to be a woman. As a masculine ideal riker cannot be masculine if his partner is not at least at heart, a woman: descriptions of what men and women do/ are like are conventional.