PERLS105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Heterosexuality, Muscular Christianity, Hegemonic Masculinity

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Physical Education, Recreation and Leisure Studies
• Course: PERLS105
• Professor: Dan Mason

Document Summary

Social life construction and general exercise biological difference between men and women correspond to social conventions: they emerge as people struggle over the meaning and organization of. Gender ideology varies from time to time and place to place: social. Dominant gender ideology consists of (cid:494)common sense(cid:495) beliefs: as opposed to being simply anchored in supposedly (cid:494)natural(cid:495) Transsexual individual who feel that their sex and gender do not. Transgendered gender fluidity: not masculine or feminine. Heteronormativeity privileging heterosexuals in social institutions: major changes human rights victories in support of gay marriage. Homophobia fear of homo: male body but feels like being a girl, pursue hormone therapy and sex reassignment surgery, biological determines versus social construction, tremendous historical and cross cultural variation of gender behavior, he/she in language. Gender: emphasizes differences in male and female bodies and differences communicated through a range of institutions, including sport and norm.