WGS160Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Anthropometry, Essentialism, Craniometry

• School: UTSG
• Department: Women and Gender Studies
• Course: WGS160Y1
• Professor: June Larkin

Document Summary

Week 3: the scientific construction of sex and gender. Transnational: the movements of products, bodies and ideas across national boundaries; due to globalization. Pays attention to differences at the same time as it promotes connections. The rigid sex/gender binary that is dominant in our society is not natural or universal, bc it has a history: looking outward: new forms of globalization, looking backward: what ways colonialism and racism play a role today. (cid:272)ie(cid:374)(cid:272)e is the produ(cid:272)t of the e(cid:374)gage(cid:373)e(cid:374)t (cid:271)et(cid:449)ee(cid:374) the s(cid:272)ie(cid:374)tist"s psy(cid:272)he a(cid:374)d the e(cid:448)e(cid:374)ts to which the scientist is attentive (caplan & caplan, 1994) Has to do with who is doing the primary research; they attend to the issues that are most important to them: using science as a cultural product. Stereotypes of masculinity and femininity; women are passive and males are assertive: reproduction operates in this binary lens. Anthropomorphism: attributes human characteristics to non-human creatures or objects. Sex differences and changing the ideas of gender.