SOC100H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Judith Butler, Queer Theory, Social Reproduction

• School: UTSG
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC100H1
• Professor: Lorne Tepperman

Document Summary

Sex universal basis of social differentiation. Gender: based on learned bottoms of masculinity and femininity. Masculinity and femininity: packages of qualities that people expect to find in a. These divisions change over time and through cross-cultural interaction. In many societies, gender is less binary than we once thought. Gender roles: gender roles can be learned through socialization for people to fit within the context of the cultural norms. Men are expected to hide fears, have stronger emotions, display drive ambition and self-confidence. Women are expected to express fears and gentler emotions and be submission with lack of self-confidence. Women are not spending so much time caring for children. Performativitiy (judith butler: queer theory holds that people"s gender and sexual identities are not fixed and do not determine who they are. A person"s gender is continually performed, not given as a fact. Sex does not cause gender of gender performance, but performance defines gender.