WS100 Lecture Notes - Femininity, Anorexia Nervosa, Jennie Livingston
24 Oct 2013
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Sex: biological differences, hormones, chromosomes, reproductive organs, male and female, essence. Gender: sociological term; behaviours attitudes, emotions and feelings, masculinity and femininity, constructed. Gender roles: characteristics and behaviours that are deemed culturally appropriate to one"s gender , boys and girls, men and women. Born on february 24th 1956 in cleveland ohio. Attended hebrew school and special classes on jewish ethics. Explores how gendered identity is socially produced through repetitions of everyday ordinary tasks. It is created through the imitation of acts, gestures and enactments. Gender does not have an essence , or an objective ideal to which it aspires: rather constituted through time. Gender is a performance with clearly punitive consequences. Captures the ball cultures in new york city, and the african. American, latino, gay, transgender communities that take part in it. Won many awards including; 1991 grand jury prize at the. Sundance film festival and an audience award from the toronto.
