Issues
Gender and Sexuality
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Introduction
•Gender
–(Film) Stereotypes
•Gender and Advertising
•Sexuality
•The future of Gender and Sexuality
•Round-up
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Definitions
•Warning!!!!!! Do not view films if you are offended by items of a sexual nature!
•Definitions
–Sex
–Gender
–Sexuality
•Are we all happy with what we are?
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Gender Identity
•Binary or pluralist genders?
•Who defines our gender identity?
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–Film on performance artist discussing gender
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•Gendered Socialisation  (Film) (Film2) and Language (Link to EU)
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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
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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
3rd Gender ?
A
Two Gender
System:
Binary
Oppositions
Sari
Pretty
Dress
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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
3rd Gender ?
Sissy
A Three Gender
System
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Advertising and Gender
•Reinforcing stereotypes
•The Male Gaze
•Changing times?
–(Film)
•You can investigate more here
•http://genderads.com/
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Differing Images of Beauty
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•Correlation between Body Image and Status
•If little food is available, being overweight implies wealth and thus high social status.
•If lots of food is availably being thin could show discipline, leisure time to exercise and high
social status.
Anorexia = Beauty
Obesity = Beauty
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Advertising and Sex
•Sex Sells
–Deconstruct this film
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•De-mystification of the body
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•Acceptance of sex as ‘normal’
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Sexuality
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•How do we construct it ?
•How do we define it?
•How can we make ourselves more sexy? (Film) •Is a Post Modern view of Sexuality possible?
•Do you agree?
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The Future of Gender and Sexuality
•Pluralism , homogenisation or retrenchment?
•Technological changes
–Gene Manipulation
–Body Augmentation
–Cybersex (Film)
–AI Sex (Film)
–Teledildonics (Film)
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Further Reading
•EU
Briefinghttp://ec.europa.eu/justice/gender-equality/files/womenonboards/wob-factsheet_2015-01_en.pd
f •Verge, T., & Lombardo, E. (2015). The differential approach to gender quotas in Spain: regulated
politics and self-regulated corporate boards.
http://cadmus.eui.eu/bitstream/handle/1814/35807/LAW_2015_24.pdf?sequence=1 •Gascoigne, C., Parry,
E., & Buchanan, D. (2015). Extreme work, gendered work? How extreme jobs and the discourse of
‘personal choice’ perpetuate gender inequality. Organization, 22(4), 457-475. Online at
http://org.sagepub.com/content/22/4/457.full.pdf+html •Stamm, M. (2015). Gay Marriage Laws in
Europe Compared to the United States.
http://scholarworks.wmich.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3543&context=honors_theses
•Woik, E. (2015). Hook Up Culture: Changing the Structure of Future Relationships?.
•http://cornerstone.lib.mnsu.edu/etds/433/
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