SOC275H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Herma, Genderqueer, Cisgender
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Lecture 2 part 2: social construction of gender. Intersexual rights activist, speaking against the early age medical intervention: cheryl chase"s body did not fit in the female/male category. She found out that she was an intersex. This knowledge never came to her voluntarily when she was a child ambiguous: she mobilized a group of people with intersex. Beyond sex role theory and gender socialization: gender socialization is ahistorical (stability) it is assumed to be stable across different times and geographical regions. It negates the possibilities of change throughout one"s course of life (continuity and durability) It emphasizes on consensus thus children are viewed as passive not active agents of socialization (who can challenge or resist what they have been exposed to: consensus- people are summed to be willing to maintain existing costumes. Doing gender perspective: doing gender means gender is not something we have but something we do in interaction with others in everyday life.
