KNES 287 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Gender Binary, Heteronormativity, Cisgender
31 Oct 2017
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There is nothing natural or essential about this gender binary, rather they are learned cultural normal and conventional, through which our gendered selves (experiences, identities, and bodies) are created. Gender is a performance embodying those learned gendered conventions and showing it to the world and selves. Judith butler there is no gender identity behind the expressions of gender; identity is performed lived constituted by the very expressions that are said to be its results just performing the conventions, gender is not innate, it is a learned performance. Women cannot drive in saudi (formal), but informal policing the way you describe babies (boy- big strong boy vs girl- cute pretty girl) I"(cid:373) good mo(cid:448)ie specific aspects for males at self-harms and violence in humorous way. Heteronormativity: the assumption that heterosexuality is the normal natural and indeed culturally preferred expression of individual sexuality, when men display feminine qualities, think that they are gay because in heteronormative world.
