POL 501 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Sex Assignment, Liminality, Masculinity

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Politics and Public Administration
• Course: POL 501
• Professor: Karen Ruddy

Document Summary

Diversity and unity (part 2): transgender and trans-feminist politics i) ii) iii) iv) Nixon v. the vancouver rape relief centre (2002) Includes all those people whose internally felt sense of core gender identity does not correspond to their assigned sex at birth or in which they were raised (macdonald, Examples: drag queen, intersex (hermapadite), ftm/mtf, transgender/trans-sexual (alter sex body), genderqueer (bigenderists/pangenderists) Feministsstruggle over changing the meaning of what it is to be a woman, expanding the boundaries of possibilities to allow for greater freedom in women"s (and men"s) lives. Transgender politicsis often about how the categories of, and the boundary between, male and female, or masculine and feminine, are set at all (macdonald, 2005, p. 287): the sex/gender system as a political system (power structure) Sex: bodies (1 sex model to the enlightment period where there were 2 sexes, to the time now where scientists say there are many sexes)