SOSC 1502 Lecture Notes - Performativity, Artificial Leather, Heterosexuality

• School: York University
• Department: Social Science
• Course: SOSC 1502
• Professor: Barbara Cameron

Document Summary

Dangerous atmosphere: normal sexuality only happened after abnormal sexualities were defined and classified, proper and deviant bodies are distinct and produced through different types of powers, class is inscribed on the body. Twilight (cid:224) how bodies are discursive: classic cinderella story (cid:224) whiteness and class, fashion (cid:224) first film: lower class, fourth film: upper class, cullens as upper class (cid:224) better table, white clothing, lighting, enter the scene, more important, the way they walk. Acts and gestures articulated and enacted desires create the illusion of an interior and organizing gender core : most people fail to be that perfect gendered woman or man (cid:224) told that they are not acting like a man/lady, drag (cid:224) imitating / performing gender, weddings are also drag, reveals that gender is performative (cid:224) questions whether there is a real gender, gender is a performance / performative, not a one time performance; is repeated every day, supports the hegemony of reproductive heterosexuality.