GWS 100AC Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Fornication, Donna Haraway, Intersectionality
16 Feb 2017
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Gender is always a relationship, not a preformed category of beings or a possession that one can have. Gender does not pertain more to women than to men. Gender is the relations between variously constituted categories of men and women [and all kinds of gender variation] and differentiated by nation, generation, class, lineage, color, and much else . Gender is: a spectrum a range of expression how you relate to yourself a personal identity. Gender is not: just male or female defined by body parts sexual orientation determined by chromosomes. Race is a concept which signifies and symbolizes social conflicts and interests by referring to different types of human bodies . Although [this] concept invokes biologically based human characteristics selection of particular human features for purposes of racial signification is always and necessarily a social and historical process. (omi & winant, racial formation in the united states.
