FEM 2110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Medicalization, Trans Woman, Cisgender

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Women's Studies
• Course: FEM 2110
• Professor: Kathryn Trevenen

Document Summary

Writing with assumption that we have already watched it. Critical response theories and concepts from the class. Can analyze specific scene from film: pity and the ableist gaze. Who gets to look at others: power as being expressed through looking. Multi-issue politics: queer, trans and disability activism: medicalization and stigmatization of bodies/desires. People as they get older often become impaired in some way. Explain to me how you became can be hostile or (trans vs. cis: what"s normal trans and cis people in popular culture. Transgender can be used as a signal of a diversity not of genders. When gender is contested, our society is extremely worried: representing trans folks: julia serano. Trans-misogyny: transphobia: fear and aversion towards trans people, but also the specific fear and hatred of trans women. Unsurprising because trans folk threaten the structure of power. Trans women threaten patriarchal society because one would value and choose femaleness and femininity over maleness and masculine.