Sc2220 Lecture 4a 2009

SC2220: Gender Studies Gender Systems (Cultural Systems, continued…) Eric C. Thompson National University of Singapore

Hollywood Images of Masculinity: Late 20 th Century Transitions ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Falling Down: Notes and Reflections ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Fight Club: Notes and Reflections ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Masculinity and Femininity ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

How do we go about producing Systems of Gender and Sexuality? The Cultural Process . . General Concepts of Masculinity and Femininity

Sari Business Pretty Clothes Dress Things (without Meaning) Masculine Feminine T-Shirt Shirt Girl Tall Guy Petite Strong Gentle Jeans Aggressive Work Architecture Engineering Nurturing Sports Shopping Arts Home Boy Ovaries Breasts Handsome Muscles Skirt Pondan/ Ah Kwah Make-Up Man Woman Sissy Activities Bodies Signifiers Dispositions Androgen Estrogen Testes

Sari Business Clothes We pick out “ meaningless things” and give them meaning by associating them with masculinity (or femininity ) Chinese Dress Masculine Feminine Batik Shirt Batik Dress T-Shirt Chinese Shirt Tall Guy Petite Strong Gentle Jeans Aggressive Architecture Engineering Nurturing Sports Shopping Arts Home Boy Ovaries Breasts Handsome Muscles Skirt Pondan/ Ah Kwah Man Woman Sissy Activities Bodies Signifiers Dispositions Estrogen Testes

Sari Business Clothes The things we associate with masculinity or femininity are largely arbitrary. Chinese Dress Masculine Feminine Batik Shirt Batik Dress T-Shirt Chinese Shirt Tall Guy Petite Strong Gentle Jeans Aggressive Architecture Engineering Nurturing Sports Shopping Arts Home Boy Ovaries Breasts Handsome Muscles Skirt Man Woman Sissy Activities Bodies Signifiers Dispositions Estrogen Testes Pondan/ Ah Kwah A skirt is feminine not masculine!! (Isn’t it?)

Difference and Distinction are essential to Meaning Mapping things onto a gendered structure gives them meaning.

Sari Pretty Dress Masculine Feminine T-Shirt Shirt Girl Tall Guy Petite Strong Gentle Jeans Aggressive Work Engineering Nurturing Sports Shopping Arts Home Boy Ovaries Breasts Handsome Muscles Skirt Make-Up Man Woman Androgen Estrogen Testes A Gendered Structure of Meaning Pondan/ Ah Kwah Sissy ?? A Two Gender System: Binary Oppositions

A Three Gender System Masculine Feminine T-Shirt Shirt Girl Tall Guy Petite Strong Gentle Jeans Aggressive Work Engineering Nurturing Sports Shopping Arts Home Boy Ovaries Breasts Handsome Muscles Skirt Make-Up Man Woman Androgen Estrogen Testes A Different Gendered Structure of Meaning Dress Feminine Pretty Dress Pondan/ Ah Kwah Sissy

Gender versus Sexuality ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Gender Systems at Play ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

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