SOSC 1502 Lecture Notes - Judith Butler, Sex Assignment, Gender Trouble

• School: York University
• Department: Social Science
• Course: SOSC 1502
• Professor: Amar Wahab

Document Summary

Duggan, crossing the line: the brandon teena case (ck) Butler, excerpt from gender trouble: feminism and the subversion of identity (ck) Assignment #4 due at the beginning of lecture. Sex" is biological/ natural" (dual categories of male" and female") while. Gender" (dual categories of masculine" and feminine") is socially constructed. Sex/gender logic: gender is viewed as the causal result of sex. Disrupting sex/gender normativity (judith butler) Gender is not to culture as sex is to nature (?) What if we thought of sex" as socially constructed as well? . Sex itself is a gendered category (?) Unsettling the assumptions/rules of binary knowledge production. Challenges the naturalized connections between the sex/gender/sexuality binaries that construct and naturalize non- trans privilege; Challenges psycho- medical and legal discourses that classify and produce categories of the. Unnatural" (i. e. pathologized as disorder") that are marked for correction;