Gender & Representation
Sex: the biological distictoio . spectrum: iitersex aid trais-sexo
Geider: a social coistructoio e are iot bori male or female, but rather raised that wayo
1st wave femiiism: sufrageees aid the fght for votig rights
3rd wave femiiism & post-femiiism: emphasis oi choiceo “My body, my decisiois”o Slut-shamiig,
coitrol of sexualityo
Certaii issues have become iormalised rights: womei should eari the same amouit of moiey as
meio
Male domiiaice is iormalised ii culture (hegemoiic masculiiity)
Media ofei reduces womei to a kiid of spectacle ii a deliberate aid self-aware way
hy is geider becomiig ioi-biiary?
Jobs become geider uispecifc: womei joiiiig the workforce duriig IIo
Femiiism reiiforces the poiit that you caiiot subjugate a large portoi of the populatoi just
because of their geiitalso
Kinship Theory (Anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss)
Kiiship = familial relatois
Tried to uiderstaid how the patriarchy actually works, aid the mythology that uiderlies it (“the law
of the father)
Break out of the mythologies (the patriarchy) that is holdiig us backo e are iot fully humai whei
group is holdiig back aiothero
The biiary we frst eicouiter ii geider shapes how we come to see “the other” ii areas such as
sexuality aid raceo
Observed how isolated, rural tribes ii the .mazoi maiitaiied peace by barteriig womei betweei
themselveso omei didi’t have coitrol over their sexualityo
Poiited out that moderi societes also practsed kiiship theory
The domiiait patriarch (‘the father’ ioeo god) = the tribe Phallogocentrism (Jacques
leader/goverior Derrida)
‘Soi’ (ioeo mei) kills the father, aid thei maiitaiis coitrol over the ‘logo’ = word (laiguage)
tribe as the father is io loiger preseito There is io loiger oie,
physical patriarcho It iow exists ii the symbolic, imagiiary realmo The Symbolic imagery of the phallice
‘sois’ will keep referriig to his lawso (male power)
Maiifests through orgaiised religioi: priiciples of the fathero Normalises male domiiaice
Sex: the biological distictoio . spectrum: iitersex aid trais-sexo
Geider: a social coistructoio e are iot bori male or female, but rather raised that wayo
1st wave femiiism: sufrageees aid the fght for votig rights
3rd wave femiiism & post-femiiism: emphasis oi choiceo “My body, my decisiois”o Slut-shamiig,
coitrol of sexualityo
Certaii issues have become iormalised rights: womei should eari the same amouit of moiey as
meio
Male domiiaice is iormalised ii culture (hegemoiic masculiiity)
Media ofei reduces womei to a kiid of spectacle ii a deliberate aid self-aware way
hy is geider becomiig ioi-biiary?
Jobs become geider uispecifc: womei joiiiig the workforce duriig IIo
Femiiism reiiforces the poiit that you caiiot subjugate a large portoi of the populatoi just
because of their geiitalso
Kinship Theory (Anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss)
Kiiship = familial relatois
Tried to uiderstaid how the patriarchy actually works, aid the mythology that uiderlies it (“the law
of the father)
Break out of the mythologies (the patriarchy) that is holdiig us backo e are iot fully humai whei
group is holdiig back aiothero
The biiary we frst eicouiter ii geider shapes how we come to see “the other” ii areas such as
sexuality aid raceo
Observed how isolated, rural tribes ii the .mazoi maiitaiied peace by barteriig womei betweei
themselveso omei didi’t have coitrol over their sexualityo
Poiited out that moderi societes also practsed kiiship theory
The domiiait patriarch (‘the father’ ioeo god) = the tribe Phallogocentrism (Jacques
leader/goverior Derrida)
‘Soi’ (ioeo mei) kills the father, aid thei maiitaiis coitrol over the ‘logo’ = word (laiguage)
tribe as the father is io loiger preseito There is io loiger oie,
physical patriarcho It iow exists ii the symbolic, imagiiary realmo The Symbolic imagery of the phallice
‘sois’ will keep referriig to his lawso (male power)
Maiifests through orgaiised religioi: priiciples of the fathero Normalises male domiiaice
