HREQ 1920 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Menstruation, Human Body, Aisle

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

Document Summary

Biological and cultural explanations for out gender identities. What you have to think of, we take it for granted, learned or performed. Why do we need culture in biology: biology cant account for all the gender formations, biology fails to recognize the meditation of our body ex. Menstruation- how long some people have it for (cultural significance) There are binary component of male and female which makes it hard for us. There isn"t 2 sexes there"s 5 to understand. Through the significance we give it through language of our body. Taboo- you don"t know what sex you are. Resists any account of gender identities on either biological or cultural bases, Judice butler: they don"t come from our sex or our mental structure, its about your gender performance that you choose to enact our gender identities. Human body is just a product of culture- not biological its social and cultural. The body becomes a signifier of our gender identity.