GEN&WS 103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Medical Debt, Transphobia, Class Discrimination
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Flashcards (on things she talked about in lecture) Lectures highlights important concepts from biology text in particular. Try to explain concepts in your own words. Notecards: title on one page, 1 sentence summary on the other. What wh readings and concepts are mentioned. Sex: biological aspects of bodies (male bodies, female bodies, intersex bodies) Gender: the social and cultural meanings attached to biological sex. It shows that females just want a boy. The girl has long eyelashes and a bosom and she"s slightly pink and super flirty and cares a lot about her looks. Ideology : set of beliefs that tells us what exists, what is good and what is possible. Defines and guides social reality whether or not it is true. In the bambi video, even though bunnies don"t wear eyeshadow it"s what girls do. Biological essentialism: belief that particular groups are naturally different. Social differences are considered biologically based as opposed to socially based.