SOC265H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Judith Butler, Gender Binary, Gender Trouble
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1 long answer: paragraph for it, does not have to be an essay. Outline: troubling the sex and gender binary, a note on language, gender transitioning, gender dysphoria. The term gender trouble comes from judith butler but it is relevant to chapter 7, what we are referring to is that we are problematizing the binaries. We can think about this as it relates to both sex and gender. We should be thinking of sex as a spectrum, this allocation of gender or a sex category is quite arbitrary, sometimes we use biological or hormones. When we allocate gender (men/women, boy/ girls) we use arbitrary allocations. Gender radical (political position) chapter 7 there are these writers they live their life genderless and they do not confirm to the two gender binary. They try to dismantle gender and (dismantling of gender)- gagne et al.
