GNDS 120- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 85 pages long!)

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Gender Studies
• Course: GNDS 120
• Professor: Jill Smith

Document Summary

Module 1: feminist/ queer/ trans conversations: week 1. Gender is the social construction of identities, roles and institutions that are associated with ideas about biological sex. Gender reveals that people"s lives are socially conditioned and open to social change. Concerns of the study of gender in our field. Concept of biological sex has changed over time and is constantly changing. Ideas on biological sex changes, gendered institutions, role and identities associated to them may change as well and vice versa. Among ideas on biological sex-one idea states that gender can be lived without being defined by associations to sex at all. In gender studies, gender is an analytical category used to shed light on the social mediation of our lives. Don"t presume gender has a fixed or uniform nature or origin and the term is available for investigation, comparison and analysis.