Media, Information and Technoculture 2200F/G Study Guide - Final Guide: Classical Hollywood Cinema, Expose, Committee For Accuracy In Middle East Reporting In America
11 Dec 2016
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Sex= the biological differences between males and females and remains consistent across time. Gender= the cultural differences between feminity and masculinity and is historically specific. Gender intersects with sexuality, class, race, ethnicity, generation and other forms of social difference. Thus different versions of gender exist, even within a given historical moment. Within a given historical moment, some versions of gender are privileged over others. Gender is a discourse, constituted by texts and practices. To say something is a discourse is to say it is the amalgam of everything. Baby colours, division of household labour are things that constitute gender. Back to barthes, and the confusion of nature and history. He hated seeing the confusion of history and nature. When we see something as natural that is cultural/historical and we link that/naturalize that to sex bodies than suddenly it seems to look like it is inevitable, like we have no choice. I resented seeing nature and history repeatedly confused in the.
