GSWS 122 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Antonio Gramsci, Pangender, Two-Spirit

• School: UPenn
• Department: Gender, Sexuality & Women's Studies
• Course: GSWS 122
• Professor: Professor

Document Summary

> a bodily site where something social happens = while physical capacities are crucial, the body does not produce a mechanism that determines the social effects. > the body doesn"t provide a natural mechanism that produces automatic social effects . > gender domain =everything in gender domain is linked to reproductive arena (feminist policy to limit tries to break link between body to emotions/fertility claims) the gender domain, Great interests in research in sex differences, which actually encourages the beliefs that sex and gender are dichotomous. Challenging dichotomies: sex = described at birth, gender =initially thought as a permanent trait, gender identity = person"s awareness as being female or male. Article on intersex discusses what happens when babies don"t have bodies that are distinctly males or females. Doctors in the past have assumed that having an indeterminate sex would be unacceptable, so doctors tried to establish a sex/gender for them despite their non distinguishable traits.