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Tiêu đề
The mis-education of lady gaga: Confronting essentialist claims in the sex and gender classroom
Tác giả
Miller A.D.
Năm xuất bản
2016
Source title
Teaching Gender and Sex in Contemporary America
Số trích dẫn
5
DOI
10.1007/978-3-319-30364-2_2
Liên kết
Tóm tắt
As the “go-to” professor on all things “sex and gender” at a small, private, liberal arts university in the Midwest I find students who have an excellent repertoire on social constructionist theories of sex and gender suddenly ill-equipped to expand this lens to sexuality. In order to remedy this lack of “sociological imagination” when it comes to the social construction of sexuality, I have tried to develop learning outcomes that include the deconstruction of the biological and the natural. In this essay, I discuss the differences between essentialist and social constructionist theories. Next, I use the pop singer Lady Gaga’s song “Born This Way” as an exemplar to explain how most of what we think we know about sexuality is rooted in the biological, which leaves little room for social explanations. Finally, I explain how what I call a “paranoia of choice” framework to be at the crux of why students are hesitant to view sexuality through a social lens, and how instructors in the sex and gender classroom can overcome this resistance. © Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016.
Từ khóa
Gaga feminism; Gender; Heterosexual matrix; Sexuality; Social constructionism
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Nơi xuất bản
Springer International Publishing
Hình thức xuất bản
Book chapter
Open Access
Nguồn
Scopus