WGS160Y1 Lecture Notes - Androcentrism, Racialization, Caster Semenya
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Look at various claims, look at evidence for them, look at alternative interpretation of these claims, examine the debates going on. Last class discussed certain language we should listen to in respect to biology things like natural, or animal nature, instinct, etc. Ii: video last week showed that if not born as either sex, they will be. 2), 3) focuses on the genital at birth not only ascribes gender but also boyness and girlness. 4) matching of male sex/male gender/boy identification as part of normal package, so if had male sex/female gender/transgender then it is not normal. 5) is singular so you can"t be male and female, or be male but act female, etc. Constant throughout one"s life, that is the naturalist paradigm. 6) ad enforce sex/sexuality/ gender hetero-dimorphism (video last week, born hermaphrodite constructed into either male or female . Biology - result in psychological makeup as gender and then impact social, cultural, economic, political dynamics & institutions.
