ANT207H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Judith Butler, Queer Theory, Welfare Queen
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Socially constructed roles and attributes considered as appropriate for respective genders. Embodiment of culturally appropriate behaviour - disposition. Works through embodiment - embody gender roles -> incorporate into everyday lives. Habitus - bourdieu; intuitive knowledge of how things are done. We do gender - embody and perform it - cf judith butler, gender trouble. Learned and simulated gender ways of thinking/acting. Anthropologists use cross-cultural sweep -> see performance of gender differently -> insight to how gender is not just given in nature (societal expectations/social construct) Cross-cultural perspective -> removes naturalness and emphasize socially produced aspect of gender. Overt power of force with punishment (i. e. criminalization of gays, ridicule boys who like girl toys) Police, discipline, manage ourselves - naturally learn to adapt, learn by observing not to deviate from norm. Works in and through us - unaware/unnoticed. Sees all social relations as gendered - cannot encounter any social situation without it being gendered - not incidental, but structured.
