Women's Studies 1020E Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Turner Syndrome, American Apparel, Sexual Differentiation
10 Apr 2020
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Women"s studies 1021: lecture notes - dec. 4th. Pwd don"t choose to be asexual it is assumed. Myth: all people with disabilities are asexual. There are people with disabilities that are asexual but also some that are not. Why should disability produce a lack of desire? (not logical) Binary (women and men; pwds and able bodied; etc) Has no desire and is not desired. Desirable bodies = ideal bodies (what is shown in advertisements) Rethinks and refigures american apparel ads that are normally very sexualized. Draw attention to disabiled body in the way of clothing advertisements. Back to idea of sex and anatomy. Definition: someone born with ambiguous genitalia (unclear if they are male or female) How is it managed (i. e. with infant) Far more variation than the binary we are brought up with. Culture is what wants to categorize bodies. Intersexuality renamed as dsd (disorders of sex development) in medical and scientific discourse.
