SA 150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Judith Butler, Jordan Peterson, Gender Trouble

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Sociology and Anthropology
• Course: SA 150
• Professor: Lindsey Freeman

Document Summary

Sa 150 chapter 9: gender and sexuality (week 13 - november 28, 2016) Sex refers to the biological designation between male and female. Gender is a state of mind and embodied attitude: it is a site of power, pleasure, and subtle coercion, it is often used to discipline our thoughts and bodily affects. Denoting or relating to a person whose self identity conforms with the gender that corresponds to their biological sex; not transgender. There is no necessity dictating that a body mind sexed female at birth will present itself to the world as feminine in adulthood and no necessary sexuality to either sex or gender. Queer theory rejects the idea that male and female genders are natural binary opposites. Queer theory rejects the idea that gender identity is connected to some biological essence. Conceptions of gender are influenced by culture, politics, and history.