ANTH 2300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Feminist Anthropology, Intersectionality, Heteronormativity
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Textbook source: cultural anthropolog y: global forces, lo cal lives 3rd. Review: feminist anthropology and the study of gender. Third genders around the world: gender as a social construction. Gender ideology: describes and justifies gender roles, statuses, and customary behaviors, organizes the way we identify and categorize people around us. Emily martin: the sperm and the egg: scientific language can be a vehicle for gender ideology, social effects. Gender and sex: early feminist anthropology, gender = culture, sex = biology, now: critique the biological reality of sex. Anne fausto-sterling: the five sexes: our understanding of sex and gender is in defiance of nature . The five sexes, revisited (2000: new technology = greater detection of difference in sexed bodies, genetic: combination of xy chromosomes, hormonal: presence of testosterone or estrogen, binary categories is not equal to the complexity of real life.
