SOCI 3690 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Grammatical Gender, Femininity, Heteronormativity
17 Nov 2017
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Like gender, femininity is very difficult to define because what counts as femininity is always changing, situationally and historically and culturally variable. A product of a gendering process: it is someway taught and reinforced to the point where it becomes almost compulsory (difficult to opt out of: if you are assigned female by birth). Beverly : femininity is a practice, set of activities and cultural requirements established by heteronormative culture: she doesn"t say gender is established through heterosexual culture but rather heteronormative. Heterosexual does not require one be masculine or feminine. Many feminine sociologists talk about feminine gender identity as a performance, irvin. Goffman states we abide by scripts when we are in public while we are at home we are able to be who we really are: front stage: performance (face, backstage: truth (real) Whiteness: hollywood and many actors are seen as beautiful if they fit under what is considered whiteness .
