May 2009
2 posts
Final Project - Dualing Dualisms - The Aging Body
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April 2009
3 posts
Act Your Age (Not Your Jimmy Cho Size): Women's...
This week’s reading was a very relatable article. Women today are constantly seeking the fountain of youth, almost as an obsession. The article compared Jane Fonda and Barbara Bush, which was very interesting. Jane Fonda is the woman who surgically enhanced her apperance, and Barbara Bush respresented the natural look. The article discussed intriguing aspects of aging. Seeing both sides...
(every)Body Hurts: Patriarchal Violence and a...
This weeks readings and discussion covered a very heavy, serious topic. Violence is everywhere in today’s society. Domestic and sexual violence is a tough subject to discuss and write about, but Bell Hook did a really good job at defining and culturalizing violence today. This week’s topic is especially difficult knowing that 1 in 3 women have been sexually assaulted. This statistic...
The Female Body as Medical: Control and...
This week’s readings and discussion were about conterversial topics that I feel very strongly about. Though I am set in my ways and have strong opinions, I enjoyed hearing other peoples throughts and insights on the same topics.
As my media blog I tried finding a clip from the movie, “Juno”. It was the scene in the clinic when Juno went to get an ultrasound. While viewing the...
March 2009
6 posts
O Yes: Taboos, Female Pleasure and the Erotic
After reading about Meredith Chiver’s studies I really thought about what women really want. Before this article, as a woman, I never really thought about what I really want. The article opens with a study conducted of mating bonobos and the reaction men and women gave to it; the study showed that neither gender were aroused by the scenes. Later, Chiver concluded that the mahority of...
Patriarchial Bodies con't.
This week’s readings and discussion brought racism in the media to my attention. Before this week I never payed attention to the idea that white men and women are portrayed different than black men and women in varying aspects of advertising. After class, I went home and looked through various magazines I found in my house as well as actually watched commercials on TV and saw the...
Patriarchal Bodies: Constructing Identity & Mass...
After this week’s readings I started paying more attention to the advertisements around me. I never noticed how many I really see each day. The media plays a huge role on society, culture, and trends, especially in populated cities like San Diego. Media makes it easy for men and women to feel inferior and wanting to have more. The media does a good job at portraying advertisements that...
[dis] Orienting the Center: Identity & Sexuality
This weeks reading challenged me to think about how gender and sexuality are tied together. Every person i unique and different. Typially, when one sees a person of one gender acting in a manner of the other gender, one would think that this person was gay. Every person interrupts what a “real” woman is and what a “real” man is and how can anyone argue with anothers...
February 2009
5 posts
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Flipping through the channels Tuesday night, I cam across a new episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. Though I did not watch the entire episode I do know that one of the supporting characters was a child originally born with both parts, raised as a girl and resenting her parent’s decision. I found it interesting that on the same night that we discussed having children with both...
Gendered Sex, con't.
Weekly this class challeneges me and my beliefs. After listening to my classmate’s opinions on Tuesday, I really sat down and thought about what I would do if I found my child had both body parts. I would definitely say that I would do the surgery immediately. I wouldn’t want my child to have to make such a life altering decision during puberty or adolescents, and if in fact my child...
Gendered Sex Categories Normalized: A Tangled...
Before this week’s readings, the thought of a transgendered person comepeting in the Olympics never crossed my mind; not because I think that transgendered people shouldn’t compete in the Olympics, but because I never thought of it as a problem before. After reading Sexing the Body, I learned about the true judgements people hold. Living in southern California, more specifically Los...
Gender vs Sex
My whole life I never knew the difference between sex and gender. On applications and official forms they always ask you to check of the box for “sex: male female” rarely is it gender. Society instills the idea that there is no difference between sex and gender, but after reading the assigned pages in My Gender Workbook, I have learned to understand and accept Bornstein’s...
January 2009
1 post
Women Embodied: What is a Woman?
This week we discussed the theme of “Women Embodied: What is a Woman?”. By reading multiple passages and discussing them in class, I was able to understand the meaning of woman and gender. Society plays an important role on defining a woman and her responsibilities. Rose Weitz defined women as “property, defective, and controlable.” For a long time, and even still today, many people use the...