EN 2012 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Mick Jagger, Ruby Rose, Gender Studies
21 Feb 2016
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Androgyny and bisexuality often get combined and overlapped. Having both masculine and feminine characteristics or neither. It is used to refer to people whose sex is not immediately evident. It is less about anatomy and more about aesthetics. Garber says that it"s cultural produced in waves according to popular celebrities. Evading oppressive distinctions between men and women. More about the mind and soul than appearance and aesthetic. The classification can be suppressed from history according to swanson or lead to violence according to butler. Hermaphrodite comes from classical depictions of people with boobs and penis. Offensive in current time to refer to intersex people this way. Bisexuality is term to describe sexual attraction to people of both sexes. Garner represents the need to know as puzzlement as fundamentally unthreatening. People need to know if someone is male or female because sexual difference is equated with human worth.
