SOCI 3670 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Gender Binary, Gender Studies, Sex Segregation
28 Jun 2016
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Queering sport lesbian softball leagues & the transgender challenge (ann travers) The potential for lesbian softball leagues to model a queering of sport requires that such organisations address the tensions between women-only sporting spaces & heteronormative gender theory. Transgendered people are becoming an increasingly visible presence in western society. Challenging assumptions about the normalcy of a rigid female/male gender binary. Social institutions such as sport are sports of tension with regard to the inclusion of transgendered persons. Tension likely to increase than decrease over time with results of traditional assumptions about the naturalness of a 2-sex system. Lesbian softball leagues are fascinating and important social spaces for exploring challenges to the gender binary. Part by the cultural lesbian-feminist celebration of anti-sexist-women-only spaces; the traditional sex segregation of sport, and queer feminist challenges to the sex/gender binary: lesbian leagues are in transition.
