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Gender Studies (class) Notes

2 Nov 2016 Introduction closely related with sex and sexuality introduction to basic concepts, theories, movements gender as a process, not a product gender as a discourse how the gender discourse has changed other discourses the biological, political, ideological constructs that normalize the social construct that gender is approaching gender in therms of the body, especially with respect to queer sexuality, or gender roles the teleological process of identity determined by sex -> gender -> sexuality (like body -> role -> position) the subversion or even reversal of this identity gender a relevant consideration in postmodern spaces - architecture, media, technology, psychology almost all institutions (law, government, education) discuss and are shaped by gender the personal is the political from women studies to gender studies Historical progress: Feminism (1st, 2nd, 3rd wave) Masculinities Queer Theory immediacies not intimacies 4 Nov 2016...