*Watch “Paris is Burning” online for ThursdayTodays Reading: “’Women’s Sweat’ Gender and Agricultural Labor in the Atlantic World” by Jennifer L. MorganGenderGender scripts: culturally specific plan for performance and interaction. Our everyday lives are scripted. Not always noticeable, but we do notice when people go “off script”. There are usually informal mechanisms in place to bring that person back on script.Naturalization: a process by which something that is culturally arbitrary appears to be cultural and natural. With gender scripts they usually feel “natural”. We forget the scripts or roles that we are playing because they seems natural. All societies look at their gender scripts and claim that they are natural and how they should be.Performativity: Through repetition of played out gender scripts things come to seem natural. Both what they repeat and what people repeat around them. What’s familiar is what is natural.Normativity: Gender scripts aren’t all equal in how they are valued by society. Describes how things should be. Some gender roles are more “normative” and socially accepted than others.Gender Inequalities: looks more at social relations.Differential access between men and women to power, resources, and prestige.How are gender scripts and inequalities related?Todays reading, “Women’s Sweat”: black women are thought to be adept at a certain kind of labor (working in the fields). Behind that script is a relation of power. The scripts constrained them to a lower position in the labor hierarchy. They are not neutral they reflect power.IntersectionalityThe article “Women’s Sweat” focuses on black women. It refers to the idea that we cant just think of people as black or white or people as just men or women. All of these ideas intersect and interact with one another.The script for the black women is very different than the script for the white women. Black women are understood to be particularly suited to work in fields compared to white women and skilled labor (textiles etc).Gender scripts often justify inequalities. Just following the “nature” of who we are. Gender plays out differently in different cultures and places in the world.AMST-A 1ST Edition Lecture 6 Outline of Last Lecture I. U.S Exceptionalisma. Ideas About US Exceptionalismb. BrazilII. The History of US Imperialisma. GlossaryIII. “Where is Guantanamo?”Outline of Current Lecture I. Gendera. Gender InequalitiesII. IntersectionalityCurrent Lecture *Watch “Paris is Burning” online for Thursday Todays Reading: “’Women’s Sweat’ Gender and Agricultural Labor in the Atlantic World” by Jennifer L. MorganThese notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor’s lecture. GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes, not as a substitute. Gender- Gender scripts: culturally specific plan for performance and interaction. Our everydaylives are scripted. Not always noticeable, but we do notice when people go “off script”. There are usually informal mechanisms in place to bring that person back on script. o Naturalization: a process by which something that is culturally arbitrary appears to be cultural and natural. With gender scripts they usually feel “natural”. We forget the scripts or roles that we are playing because they seems natural. All societies look at their gender scripts and claim that they are natural and how they should be.o Performativity: Through repetition of played out gender scripts things come to seem natural. Both what they repeat and what people repeat around them. What’s familiar is what is natural.o Normativity: Gender scripts aren’t all equal in how they are valued by society. Describes how things should be. Some gender roles are more “normative” and socially accepted than others. Gender Inequalities: looks more at social relations. - Differential access between men and women to power, resources, and prestige.- How are gender scripts and inequalities related?o Todays reading, “Women’s Sweat”: black women are thought to be adept at acertain kind of labor (working in the fields). Behind that script is a relation of power. The scripts constrained them to a lower position in the labor hierarchy. They are not neutral they reflect power. Intersectionality- The article “Women’s Sweat” focuses on black women. It refers to the idea that we cant just think of people as black or white or people as just men or women. All of these ideas intersect and interact with one another. - The script for the black women is very different than the script for the white women.Black women are understood to be particularly suited to work in fields compared to white women and skilled labor (textiles etc). - Gender scripts often justify inequalities. Just following the “nature” of who we are. Gender plays out differently in different cultures and places in the
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