Women's Studies 2161A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Caitlyn Jenner, Gender Binary, Trans Woman

• School: Western University
• Department: Women's Studies
• Course: Women's Studies 2161A/B
• Professor: Nichole Edwards

Document Summary

Trans is the new black: transgender identities in pop culture. Moves away from the gender they were assigned at birth, people who cross over (transgress) the boundaries constructed by their culture to define and contain that gender. " (stryker 2008) Susan stryker trans-writer: boundaries constructed by their culture. Denotes a range of gender experiences, subjectivities and presentations that fall across, between or beyond stable categories of man and woman. " (hines 2010) Sally hines: trans studies uk: * good definition, shows the fact that trans experience is experiential, on universal experience, no trans people have same experience. Crossing binaries from male or female to female to male: assumer different body or gender representation. Culture has trouble with this because were believed to live within a binary: want to fill some grey area space. Socially transition: changing names, changing pronouns, not having the desire for medical interventions. Fill some space not yet clearly defined.