CMNS 388 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Bell Hooks, Gender Role, Gender Binary

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Communication
• Course: CMNS 388
• Professor: Milena Droumeva

Document Summary

Contemporary moment: promise of creation of new normal around gender signalled by media events. Gender fluidity and new vocabulary: still lots of sexism, hegemonic gender relations are still in play, we live in a time of confusing gender politics. Gender as language (technologies of gender as syntax and vocabulary) Feminism (bell hooks): an analysis of sexism, strategies for challenging patriarchy, and new models for social interaction: patriarchy rests upon gender norms and ways of being. Gender scripts: a lear(cid:374)ed (cid:862)(cid:272)ultural s(cid:272)e(cid:374)ario(cid:863) for (cid:271)eha(cid:448)iour, (cid:271)elief, i(cid:374)tera(cid:272)tio(cid:374), a(cid:374)d/or ide(cid:374)tit(cid:455). (from shapiro) connected to norms as internalize values that form social structures. Construction of a gender order: a relational matrix. Upholding hegemonic gender norms of both femininity and masculinity ensures the reproduction of patriarchy and oppression enacted through gender scrips of social behaviour. Still reliance on gender stereotypes and normative gender expressions and forms are what upholds and reproduces patriarchy.