Media, Information and Technoculture 3201F/G Study Guide - Final Guide: Sexual Fetishism, Antisexualism, Permissive Society
2 Oct 2013
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Pleasantville: women are passive and submissive, sex linked to daner. Wilchins (queer theory, gender theory) notes that: S/he notes that the way in which language works to create meaning by excluding and separating (we know we are male by knowing that we are not female) imposes a binary system of meaning. Two sex model: understanding of men and women as wholly different based on anatomy, but this was also understood through changing ways of understanding the roles of men and women. Complementarity of male and female bodies and social roles. Emphasized femininity: complement to hegemonic masculinity - femininity which accommodates the interests and needs of hegemonic masculinity. Pleasantville & crank: examples of hegemonic gender: mens bodies should be machines, women are submissive and disposable, sex is a need for the men. Full monty: gusy turn into strippers scared men to take clothes off up front of other men because of homophobia girls take your clothes off .
