CMNS 388- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 25 pages long!)

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Communication
• Course: CMNS 388
• Professor: Milena Droumeva

Document Summary

Feminist movements in different parts of the world. Feminism functions differently in different parts of the world (critical) discourses in the contemporary moment. Male sex dolls becoming a thing after women sex dolls. Could be pushing us even further away from each other. Complaints against creator of dolls; dolls have pornographic bodies. Subordination of femininity to hegemonic masculinity along with the marginalization of other masculinities. Complicit masculinities sustain the gender hegemony: some of the phenomenon men oprah mentioned have publically stated that they have been brought to light by #metoo; a form of complicity. Recognition that biology does play a role in gender; we have different biological make-up, but the(cid:396)e a(cid:396)e (cid:395)uite a (cid:374)u(cid:373)(cid:271)e(cid:396) of people (cid:449)ho do(cid:374)(cid:859)t fall i(cid:374)to eithe(cid:396) (cid:272)atego(cid:396)(cid:455) (cid:271)iologi(cid:272)all(cid:455) o(cid:396) so(cid:272)ially. A loop and circuit linking body processes and structures. In the late 19th century, boys wore pink and girls wore blue and both genders wore dresses.