Women's Studies 2161A/B Study Guide - Fall 2018, Comprehensive Midterm Notes - Rape, Black People, Slut
12 Oct 2018
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Women's Studies
2161A/B
MIDTERM EXAM
STUDY GUIDE
Fall 2018
Lecture 1 - Women, Celebrity, and Popular Culture
September 15, 2016
10:24 AM
• high ro.. hat’s so good aout the Moa Lisa, hy does eeryody loe it, sae ith like the
opera, ut that’s hy its so ulturally orthhile
• Things that are high brow, can also become low brow
• “oethig is said to e ad eause its so popular… so I ould ot like a artist eause eeryoe
else loes the so uh
• Made by the people for the people
• People can have hidden messages in what they do
• Musicians and politics
• The Hip never left Canada because they were made by the people for the people, whereas most
people would have moved to LA
• Lines are blurred (high art, low art)
• Glee lurred the lies y sigig usi that as’t ell ko
Contemporary Celebrity Culture
• Ascribed Celebrity (Paris Hilton)
• Achieved Celebrity (Pure talent)
• Attributed Celebrity (Famous for being famous. ex; Kardashians)
• Humanitarian Celebrity (Angelina Jolie, Emma Watson)
• Started off as celebrities but now they spend more time working for the UN)
Technologies
• Thanks to technologies, we feel more accessible to celebrities
• Paparazzi pheoeo has ireased draatially, a star etioed It as so ie to hae o
aeras aroud ut she did’t thik to etio that there ere the filig aeras aroud
because she was just talking about the paparazzi
Magazine, then vs. now
• Before you used to paint the ideal women, now we just photo shop the ideal picture
Symbolic Annihilation of Women
• You a’t e hat you a’t see
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Lecture 2 - Trans is the New Black
September 19, 2016
5:41 PM
Ecopasses ayoe who…
• …oes aa fo the gede the ee assiged at ith, people ho oss oe tasgess
the oudaies ostuted thei ultue to defie ad otai that gede. “tke 8
• …deotes a age of gede epeiees, sujetiities ad pesetations that fall across,
etee o eod stale ategoies of a ad oa. Hies
• …defies soietal epetatios egadig gede. “eao 6
• Some may have the desire to
o Properly belong to another gender
o Fill some space not yet clearly defined
o Get away from conventional expectations
• Transgender people believe there is no before and after, they believe they have been the same
the whole time, so you cant use transgender as a verb
GLAAD releases "Tip Sheet for Journalists"
• DO describe people ho tasitio as tasgede, ad use tasgede as a adjetie. Caitl
Jee is a tasgede oa.
• DON'T use transgender as a noun. For example, don't say: "Caitlyn Jenner is a transgender."
• DONT use "tasgedeed." Tasgede ee needs an extraneous "-ed" at the end.
Further terminology
• Transsexual – historically used when surgical modifications employed. A contested term today –
can sound overly clinical or imply the issue is closely linked to sexual behaviour. Some trans folks
prefer the term, others detest it
• Genderqueer - resist gender norms without medical intervention; challenge gender categories
through expression – essig ith gede, ueeig gede
o I oside self gedeuee eause I feel uofotale ith the gender binary, and I
am unhappy when I feel pressured to conform to the binary gender role expectations of
oe ad e.
o could be looked at like Jaden smith (messing between the genders)
• Non-binary – variant, fluid, pangender, existing beside the binary?
o I dot eall see self as oe se oe the othe. I a iologiall feale, although I hae
had FTM top suge. I a ot o testosteoe, as I dot feel like eig laeled ale ould
make me feel closer to what I feel I am. And what am I? Somethig i etee.
• Cisgender – idetifig ith the gede assoiated ith oes gie iologial se
Caitlyn Jenner - Good and bad for the trans community?
• Hiding away until the transition was done
• People now might assume that trans women look like that
• She didt hae to go though the stuggle eause of he fae ad he oe
• She is a distraction to real issues
• She acknowledges the fact that gender identity and sexuality have to be looked at separately
• P‘IVILEGE! Cait thiks eause she ead a ouple pages i a ook, she kos?
• A distraction to real issues that most transwomen face (season 2 unpacks these in fairly nuanced
detail)
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Document Summary
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