WGS160Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Settler Colonialism, Carl Linnaeus, Drapetomania
9 Dec 2015
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Born with xy chromones at 8 months burned and severed during operation because he was not able to urinate. After 1 year parents saw john money (view of nurture - gender through socialization) Parents were invited to money"s - money suggested to raise david as a girl. Brenda grew up as a girl - monitored often and went to institute to become socialized into being a girl. Brenda realized she was not a girl - based off of her wanting to buy male toys. Doctors gave her more estrogen - she refused. She preferred male activities and not wanting female genitalia. Diamond encouraged brenda to become david again and to have a phallis consctructed. He concluded that gender was not malleable like money believed. Naturalness [the biological/nature] is artifically induced. (butler, gender. They can"t conceive of leaving someone alone. Notion of norm has to be surgically developed.
