WGS335H5 Study Guide - Final Guide: Brandon Teena, Trans Man, Gender Binary

• School: UTM
• Department: Women and Gender Studies
• Course: WGS335H5
• Professor: Jeffrey May

Document Summary

Transgender masculinities and a more than binary gender: discussion builds upon butler"s arguments, sloop follows butler very closely o. In talking about "discourse: butler taught us two things, the myth of the "universal womanhood" Being a women difference on race and class: gender as performance. Gender exists only insofar as it is a reiterated social performance (repeated acts) Done repeatedly: butler argues that there is no sex before culture, meaning there are no effects of gender tied only to biology (genitals, and thus masculinity isn"t tied to specific bodies. Trans masculinities: trans men provides us within important examples of how masculinity is performed, and is not essential, natural, or in born, transgender: a broad term describing people who live in the in-between of the gender binary. It is separate from sexuality o: used by people to identify a broad range of gender. Can be attracted to people of any gender: transgender identities disrupt the gender binary (man/woman, gender binary.