SOCIOL 1A06 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Lorde, Femicide, Public Sphere
3 Apr 2016
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Gender is socially constructed - not universal - emerge as a response to social posiion men and women o. Research on intersex has renewed interest in biology to challenge noions of dichotomy o. What it means to be a man or woman in canada today difers very much historically. Essenialist prespecive: sees gender roles as developing naturally as a result of biological diferences !!! Chapter 4 of ns read it! o o o. Criicisms: ignores role of power - historically men have held more power in all aspects. Also, focuses on average diferences between men and women - taking mean of anything --> skewed variaion of data. Figure 4. 3: the distribuion of male and female aggressiveness. Heterosexuality: atracion, desire, emoional and sexual relaionship with someone of the opposite sex. Pansexuality: desire, emoional and sexual relaionship regardless of gender, biological sex (more luid, over - can love and desire transgenders, bisexual, etc)
