ANTH 2170 Final: ANTH 2170 FINAL EXAM REVIEW.docx
27 Jul 2014
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Gender performance : gender is performed, culturally constructed, learned, interpreted, practiced, gender performance is naturalized in the body through repetition, and yet, gender is open to interpretation, negotiation, change, can be big or small everyday tasks, negotiated. Otokoyaku : women acting as men in theatrical performances, trains them to be good wives and mothers, encouraged to study males. Kata: behavior and actions of a male on stage, composed of three sections, voice, appearance, gestures (vag) Takarazuka revue: a space where ideal and idealised gender is performed and cultivated, radical space, men are idealized, women perform as men. Popular culture communicates many things at once, tr is an example of this, excessive costumes, movement, make-up, story lines- - all over the top. Image of person who is a woman dressed as man, hyper masculine. A lot of ways of understanding what it is trying to communicate to us. Tr been embraced by audience with meanings not intended.
