SOCIOL 3AC Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Gender Bender, Homophobia, Heteronormativity
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Ways in which people act to manipulate the relations between masculinity and femininity, as others commonly understand them. Acting in ways not associated with teenage girls. Lead to less sexist understandings and performances of masculinity and femininity. Gender resistance and non normative sexuality can increase social status for basketball girls, not gsa a. Girls reject tomboy childhood to be more normative feminine i. Baseball caps okay as child, not as teenager. Acted like boys in many ways: i. ii. iii. iv. v. vi. vii. Gained benefits by appropriating masculine traits a. b. c. Rebecca used masculinized language and rituals to describe her own processes of getting girls i. ii. iii. Referred to body as male: girls on my jock, muscles not breasts. Sexual harassment of girls she found attractive b. c. Didn"t identify with political issues around gender or sexuality. Rebecca and jessie chau - homophobia attached to fag did not apply as strongly to lesbians.
