SOCIOL 2Q06 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Intersex, Dysphoria, Sex Assignment

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCIOL 2Q06
• Professor: Anna Janzen

Document Summary

The gendered society reader (kimmel) important readings with author names: David: evolutionary themes to sex differences/adaptive differences. Elaine: alberta frontier : menstrual taboo/marriage for survival. Candis: alive and still kicking : changing goals/agendas, control own bodies, feminism. Judith: biology as ideology : gender portrayed unrealistic in sports has a long way to go, problem of sexism. Stacy & geraint: strenuous hockey : violence & masculinity, hockey as manslaughter, butchery vs active spectacle = vhbs. *gillian: no longer one of the boys : barrier of motherhood, conceptual men. *scott: household labour : producing gender, division of labour, managing vs helping, normalizing atypical (strange) behavior. Nancy: gender in women"s hockey : challenging masculine hegemony (power), sport ethic and how women should play hockey. Ellen & angela: kindergarten : warrior narratives vs discourse of civil society, social contract. *sarah: residential schools : place, rested place, gendered place. Brenda: medical school : everyday racism, sexism, heterosexual classism.