HSCI 130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Judith Butler, Human Reproduction, Ung County
26 Jan 2016
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Secondary sex characteristics are features that appear at sexual maturity in animals and during puberty in humans, especially the dimorphic phenotypic traits that distinguish the two sexes of female and male. It is unlike the sex organs and are not directly part of the reproductive system. Gender is structure of social relations that centres on the reproductive arena/set practices that bring reproductive distinctions between bodies into social processes. Socially prescribed/experience dimensions of maleness / femaleness in society. All social relations that separate people into differentiated gendered statuses. Gendered: characterized as masculine or feminine and prescribes or exhibits patterns of differences by genders. Verb: gendering things (associating them with a particular gender. Not just a concept, something we actively do. Judith butler, a famous feminist theorist, would say that we are gendering ourselves and that gender is something we perform. Gender structural components: gender as a concept that affects all social relations and separate people into different groups.
