Monthly Archives for October 2013
Simida Sumandea 2013-10-22 10:20:00
Like many others essays of this week’s blogging, mine has the same questions. What is gender and what is sexuality. To be more precise could we find another body binary that we could deconstruct? If there is this binary sexuality-gender, could we tal… Continue reading
Simida Sumandea 2013-10-22 10:20:00
Like many others essays of this week’s blogging, mine has the same questions. What is gender and what is sexuality. To be more precise could we find another body binary that we could deconstruct? If there is this binary sexuality-gender, could we tal… Continue reading
some reflexions
As the American Psychological Association suggests, and as what I understand, the term “Sex” means one’s biological status and is “typically categorized as male, female or intersex”; “Gender” means all of those “attitudes, feelings and behaviors that a given culture associates with one’s biological sex”, like a sediment, or the norm that this culture or […] Continue reading
Should we read the screenplay or should we rewrite it?
This week’s readings made me rethink discourses on gender and on sexuality. First, Butler had my attention when she started to talk about gender as a social construction that is performed. It is true that sex is easily determined for the biological distinction between men and women is physically observable. Now how does one determine […]
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And what about masculine femininity?
In the chapter that we have read of her book Female Masculinity, Judith Halberstam makes the following statement regarding the role of female masculinities: “[F]emale masculinities are framed as the rejected scraps of dominant masculinity in order that male masculinity … Continue reading → Continue reading
Gender and sex
This week, I was very interested in Butlers’ excerpt of Performative acts and gender constitution as I relate her critique to feminism to our discussion last class. When considering gender within the simplistic dichotomy patriarchy/women oppression, one’s assumes the universalism … Continue reading Continue reading
Gender and sex
This week, I was very interested in Butlers’ excerpt of Performative acts and gender constitution as I relate her critique to feminism to our discussion last class. When considering gender within the simplistic dichotomy patriarchy/women oppression, one’s assumes the universalism … Continue reading Continue reading
What Is Masculinity?
The article that I found most interesting this week was Judith Halberstam’s “Female Masculinity,” maybe because I had never read this text before, and also I like that it comes from a 1998 book (relatively recent). I found her argument … Continue reading Continue reading
What Is Masculinity?
The article that I found most interesting this week was Judith Halberstam’s “Female Masculinity,” maybe because I had never read this text before, and also I like that it comes from a 1998 book (relatively recent). I found her argument … Continue reading Continue reading
Post modernism and European memory
Last week, I went to a conference held by the Cenes and presented by Eva Thompson. The scholar from Rice University was questioning the construction of historical memory focusing on the post 2WWEurope. Eva Thompson noticed a switch from the 19th chauvinism of historians to the 20th century attempts to think about European memory […] Continue reading
