Interesting points were brought up in this essay about how gender sometimes translates into a historical idea rather than a natural species. We learn that history has always been recorded visually. Hunters and gatherers would paint on cave walls about hunting strategies or even the anatomy of different animals. Eventually it went on to writing symbols and so on, but basically history has always been recorded visually. Male and female bodies are like sculptures and alot of what we know about them is what we see, but majority of it is what we've been told to see in these particular sculptures.
Judith also mentions that gender is a constitution. I think these two ideas go well together because a constitution is a historical document. What was said about these sculptures, the rules and regulations, are what have melted into societies norm today.
Hi Yubu,
ReplyDeleteYour responses are way too short! A response should be at least 250 words long. This one is 123 words long and most of your responses are also short. You need to pick up on more ideas from the readings and elaborate on them in detail.
I do like your example of visual (historical) representation of gender as a way to understand gender as historical set of ideas. But you should have elaborated on the concept of gender as constitutive acts more. Always include quotes with page numbers.
Soyoung (9points/15)