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Gender studies!
What is sex and what is gender? In this week’s reading one thing that stood out to me was Judith Butler discussion about sex and gender. Here she sites Beauvoir saying that s she: “Claims that “woman” is a historical idea and not a natural fact, she clearly underscores the distinction between sex, as biological […]
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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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