SOC 202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: 3 Women, Erving Goffman, Michel Foucault
27 Jan 2017
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Soc202 lecture 3 (cid:498)women(cid:499) as the subject of feminism and legitimacy to women as political subjects. Representation: serves as the operative term within a political process that seeks to extend visibility. Representation is also the normative function of language which is said either to reveal or to distort what is assumed to be true about the category of women. Gender is socially constructed; wearing nail polish is considered feminine. Phallocentric: reflecting a perspective that is predominantly/exclusively male. Gender: the set of processes and practices that shape our understanding of sexed bodies; the way a. Sex does not exist outside of gender ways that consolidate with being a man or woman. It is the repeated performance of gender which actually constructs the physical condition of sex while simultaneously hiding that construction. Feminine: non aggressive, dependent, easily influenced, submissive, passive, home-oriented, easily hurt emotionally, indecisive. Masculine: aggressive, independent, not easily influenced, dominant, active, worldly, not easily hurt emotionally, decisive.
