Unit 8 Flashcards
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Gendered Embodiment
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- Gendered cultural norms shape relationships to bodies (our own and others), as well as how bodies are experienced in feeling, acting and relating to others
- Bodies can reproduce and challenge gendered power dynamics
- Gender is always undertaken in relation and reference to a body (the material)
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The Body in Gender as a Social Structure
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- Larger structural ways to think about body
- What connects us to space, interaction and experiencing of our world
- Brings meaning: what it means to have this body
- Very relevant but very personal
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Masculine and Feminine Bodies
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Dominant discourses of masculinity & what they say should be expected
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Masculine and Feminine Bodies: Masculine
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- Competence, dominance, control & confidence
- Self-control, agents, subjects, doing
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Masculine and Feminine Bodies: Feminine
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- Passivity, self-consciousness, vulnerability as object, imperfect tool
- Always aware of its object nature to be acted upon, to be desired, to be submissive to dominance
- Perpetually both object & subject (objects but also living in these bodies/living beings
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Masculine and Feminine Bodies: Feminine embodiment
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- ‘The body’s alienation from the self’
- Always a tension present
- Fem body has to be dragged along as well as protected
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Masculine and Feminine Bodies: Intersectionality and non-hegemonic bodies
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- Constraints faced for embodiment
- Opportunities given when embodying transgressing norms
8
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Masculine and Feminine Bodies: The future of gender and bodies
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- An interest in power over style
- Where are we going? what does it mean?
- Shaping our interest in power rather than style helps us critique ethics when embodying bodies (like where disabled bodies fit in this embodiment of gender)
9
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Martin -> Sample & Method
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- Birth is body centric, interaction of physiology, body objectivity, mentality, etc.
- More of a female approach, but this is not strictly a women’s issue (birthing ppl are not all women)
- 26 women in space of maternity healthcare
- Vast majority are white, middle class, heterosexual which is a limitation
- Mostly hospital births, more midwives
- When thinking about intersectionality, you may look into limitations & impacts if this sample for results, racialized folks and indigenous folks with worse health outcomes in maternal care, SES and class’ roles
10
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Technology, Gender & Birth
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- We are always, already gendered
- Internalized technology of gender causes women in labour to discipline themselves, such as doing normative gender in birth, when gender breaks down, and when not demonstrating internalized gender
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Doing Normative Gender
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- Tyranny of Nice and Kind
- Not bothering others
- Selflessness
- Adopting the Other’s Gaze
12
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Acting Out
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- When the gendered self breaks women may be seen as “nasty, inflexible, crabby, difficult, and out of control”
- Not acting appropriately based on their gender, not acting like themselves
13
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Gender nonconformists
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- 3 women did not conform
- Decisive, taking charge, although it involved telling men how to do domestic things they did not know how to do
- Unapologetic (at least in the moment) for taking charge
- What would resistance to/freedom from technologies of gender look like?
- Which comes first, the setting or the nonconformity? How might this look, resisting technologies of gender?
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“Unruly” Female Bodies
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- Bodybuilding (very different from what is expected)
- Virtuous bodies (having to manage your body to a point of acquiring such a physique)
- Whose gaze are we thinking about? (female, masculine, other?)
- Is it a resistance or not? Is it a reproduction of gender norms but in a different way or a resistance?
- Like men’s bodybuilding but maybe with more of a beauty pageant approach (ornamentalization, sexuality, feminization)
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3 main themes found on Instagram
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- Redefining Femininity Through Muscularity
- Surveillance over Muscularity and Fat
- Negotiating Muscularity and Maintaining Resistance
