KNES 287 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Typical Male, Masculinity, Heteronormativity

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Module 2 topic a: sport, power, and gender hierarchy. De-naturalizing the gendered/sexed body: the active body is not entirely a natural entity. It is a combination of both physical and social constructs, making it both a product and producer of society. The social and cultural construction of the body: in different societies and cultures, different body sizes could mean different things. In one society, a certain weight could be viewed as overweight, and a different society could view that same exact weight as not overweight. Sex as binary or continuum: we live in sex absolutes (two categories of sex), when in reality, there are physiological, chromosomal, and hormonal variations that alter our sex, thus making there be more than just a sex absolutely. Instead, our reality as a society is that of intersex (people are born with reproductive or sexual anatomies that don"t necessarily match typical male or female definitions).

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