WMGS 5a Lecture 10: 11/3 mini group notes on Herculine Barbin Reading Discussion Questions

• School: Brandeis University
• Department: Women's and Gender Studies
• Course: WMGS 5a
• Professor: Lamb Sarah

Document Summary

Herculine barbin: being the recently discovered memoirs of a nineteenth-century french. Reading and discussion questions: think about the below questions while reading the text. As you read the book, think about various answers to this question. Naturually i was initiatedwas giving birth. : (cid:1445)critically queer(cid:1446) heteropatriarchy very dependent on stable gender system. Originally families had the freedom to decide gender of a child. but with modernity came schooling, psychiatry, and therefore an obsession to categorization in an attempt to streamline what is essentially a fluid identity. Emphasis on males and females occupying different spaces in society. Wmgs 5a, fall 2016, brandeis university: pages 10-11. Try to find specific passages to support your assessments: page 39 - she"s not sure and is therefore constantly embarrassed, for herself and for others. I was the only one present at this bathing party who was a spectator. I would not have been able to say at the time.