HREQ 1920 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Judith Butler, Tabula Rasa, Binary Classification

• School: York University
• Department: Human Rights and Equity Studies
• Course: HREQ 1920
• Professor: Elizabeth Brule

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Draw an understanding of how society has polarized our gender. (cid:523)put them in binary"s(cid:524) Gendered identities can not simply be the effect of our biological bodies. Lecture 6: counting past two: biology can not account for differences in gender information, biology fails to recognize that our understanding of how our biological bodies themselves are mediated by culture. She emphasizes how there are differences between men and women. Try and fit people into this binary classification of male and female. Tries to make us understand what is cultural with what were learning and what is biological. The culture or the social construction of gender identity view our biological bodies as blank slates (tabula rasa) Either through social practices or through these layers of cultural meaning that we learn to become gendered individuals. When we talk about culture we refer to discourse (codeian term, any practices or language that we do on a daily basis, ie: menstruation).