L2 for lms
- 1. Sex Bodies Spaces Gender and Pop Culture Lecture 2 Stories into Discourse
- 2. Stories about Gender • Enlightenment philosophy • Theories of sex and gender • Language/discourse • Visual languages
- 3. ‘Sex is a theory about human beings which divides them into two biologically based categories – male or female’ Gender Studies: Terms & Debates, Anne Cranny-Francis, Wendy Waring, Pam Stavropoulos, Joan Kirkby. 2003. P.7.
- 4. Enlightenment • Age of Reason • 1650-1790 • Voltaire, Newton, Rousseau, Locke, Spinoza • Printing Press • democracy
- 5. Descartes (1596-1650) Cogito ergo sum I think therefore I am Cartesian dualisms: • Mind • Body • Rational • Emotion • Culture • Nature • Reason • Passion • Transcendence • Immanence • Public • Private • Man • Woman
- 6. ‘the distinction between the sexes is taken to be a fundamental feature of nature that could only be represented in culture in this dichotomous way’ (Moira Gatens Imaginary Bodies Routledge. 1996. 51).
- 7. Common Sense Common sense appears to be an obvious and natural set of values and beliefs, whose authority is based on the collective and timeless wisdom whose unquestioned presence seems to be the source and guarantee of everything we take for granted. Common sense appears obvious because it is inscribed in the language we speak…
- 8. Talking about Bodies Thomas Lacqueur. Making Sex: Body and Gender from the Greeks to Freud. Harvard UP 1990
- 9. Bodies that resist categories
- 10. Gendered spaces themselves shape, and are shaped by, daily activities. Once in place, they become taken for granted, unexamined, and seemingly immutable’ Daphne Spain, Gendered Spaces 1992. P.29.
- 11. …what seems obvious and natural is not necessarily so, but on the contrary, ‘the obvious’ and ‘the natural’ are not given but produced by the ways in which the society talks and thinks about itself and its experience. (Catherine Belsey Critical Practice p.3) = ideology
- 12. ‘Sex is a theory about human beings which divides them into two biologically based categories – male or female’ Gender Studies: Terms & Debates, Anne Cranny-Francis, Wendy Waring, Pam Stavropoulos, Joan Kirkby. 2003. P.7.
- 13. Approaches to theorising sex and gender
- 14. Freud ‘Anatomy is destiny’ (Collected Writings 1924)
- 15. Simone De Beauvoir: ‘One is not born but rather becomes a woman.’ (The Second Sex 1949)
- 16. Robert Stoller • Sex and Gender 1968: gender is a learned set of behaviours unrelated to biology • Sex/Gender distinction: sex=biological, gender= social contested in 1990s as much more ambiguous
- 17. Moira Gatens The Sex/gender distinction •is culturally and linguistically mediated •Changes over time and place •Where does the social end and the body begin? •How are sex and gender implicated? Imaginary bodies: ethics, power and corporeality. Routledge 1996.
- 18. Elizabeth Grosz ‘human subjects give meaning to their biologies … their bodies always mean something, to themselves and to others’. ‘the body can be seen as the primary object of social production and inscription, and can thus be located within a network of socio-historical relations instead of being tied to a fixed essence.’ ‘sexual differences are purely relational’ Volatile Bodies (Allen & Unwin 1994)
- 19. Judith Butler •gender as performance • as an act that one does, and repeats, over time, either consciously or subconsciously, so that it becomes naturalised. • Socially coded and constructed • Shifts over time and place • Punishments for performing out of turn Gender Trouble 1999
- 20. Gender anxiety
- 21. Sexuality
- 22. Queer theory • Adrienne Rich: ‘compulsive heterosexuality’ • Judith Butler: ‘the heterosexual matrix’
- 23. Stories into discourse Discourse – ways of structuring knowledge and social practice Subjects/subjectivities – the idea of the self/process of identity
- 24. Graeme Turner Film as Social Practice 1988 Film’s function in our culture goes beyond that of being, simply, an exhibited aesthetic object … Film is a social practice for its makers and its audience; in its narratives and meanings we can locate evidence of the ways in which our culture makes sense of itself. (3)
- 25. Workshop 1 Disney Tales Mickey Mouse Monopoly http://www.veoh.com/watch/v15800022cezMt3D6