WMST 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Mastectomy, Sexology, John Money

• School: George Mason University
• Department: Women and Gender Studies
• Course: WMST 200
• Professor: Rachel Lewis

Document Summary

Judith butler: doing justice to someone: sex reassignment and allegories of transsexuality. Performativity: can be thought of as a socially inculated set of standards within a social context that acquires meaning and provides gender coherence over time. Intelligibility: gender is intelligible when it follows established norms of understanding, and those norms rest on heterosexuality, which requires a clear di erentiation between feminine and masculine as presumed expressions of male and female. The cultural matrix through which gender identity has become intelligible requires that certain kinds of identities cannot exist. These transgressive identities (e. g. trans, lesbian, etc) appear as developmental failures or become invisible to the viewer as a logical impossibility. (pg 16 gender trouble) Hence, policing of non-normative sex, gender, and/or desire. Regulatory regime - both informs the law and exceeds the law. Relationship between intelligibility and knowability of the huma.