HISTORY 327 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Khanith, Genderqueer, Thomas Beatie
12 Apr 2017
School
Department
Course
Document Summary
History 327 lecture 22 trans identities and the sex/gender system. According to gayle rubin the set of arrangements in a society in which biological anatomy corresponds to human activity. Trans identities are found in the midst of power, desire, institutions, and knowledge. Intersex identities questioned the understandings in the tradition sex/gender system. Sex: body, physical, functional characteristics, anatomy, physiology, hormones. Gender: social traits of femaleness or maleness, identification with masculinity or femininity. Sexuality: erotic desire, sexual acts, sexual identity. Sex and gender always in flux: trans identities also in flux. What is real gender: whisper male and female exist as the two non-mutated combinations of sex chromosomes: xy and xx. They also appear in the primary and secondary sexual characteristics of humans and others. They are no illusion, but fact. : transparent this is me . Transgender and its near relations: transgender/trans. Gender revolution: a journey with katie couric. Changes in gender norms have a sensationalist value in the media.
