This chapter discusses the representation of sex, gender, and sexuality from feminist and cultural studies perspectives. It covers the history of feminist waves and theories like liberal, socialist, difference, black, postcolonial, poststructuralist and postfeminism. It also examines the social construction of sex and gender through theorists like Foucault, Irigaray, and Butler. Additional topics include queer theory, masculinity, gender representation in media like films and toys, and issues of gender in cyberculture.

1. Cultural Studies Theory and Practice
5th Ed.
Part 3
Chapter 9: Sex, Subjectivity And Representation
Chris Barker
Emma A. Jane
Presented by Dr. Pamela Hampton-Garland

2. Chapter 9: SEX, SUBJECTIVITY AND
REPRESENTATION
FEMINISM AND CULTURAL STUDIES
Patriarchy, Equality and Difference
Feminist ‘waves’
The Limits of the ‘Wave’ Metaphor
Liberal and Socialist Feminism
Difference Feminism

3. Chapter 9: SEX, SUBJECTIVITY AND
REPRESENTATION
FEMINISM AND CULTURAL STUDIES
Black and Postcolonial Feminism
Postsructuralist Feminism
Feminist Gains
Postfeminism
The more things change, the more they stay the
same
Everyday Sexism
Street Harassment

4. Chapter 9: SEX, SUBJECTIVITY AND
REPRESENTATION
SEX, GENDER AND IDENTITY
Sex, science and culture
Breaking Down the
Binary
Gender Division and
Culture
Sex, Gender and
Language
A Third Gender
Sex and Spectrums
Testosterone
Sex and the Brain
So are there ANY
differences between
Females and Males
Reconciling Nature
Nurture

5. Chapter 9: SEX, SUBJECTIVITY AND
REPRESENTATION
SEX, GENDER AND IDENTITY
Women’s Difference
Irigaray and Womanspeak
The Social Construction of Sex and
Gender
Sex as a Discursive Construct

6. Chapter 9: SEX, SUBJECTIVITY AND
REPRESENTATION Continues
SEXED SUBJECTS
Foucault: Subjectivity and Sexuality
Sex and the Discursive Construction of
the Body
The Feminist Critique of Foucault
Ethics and Agency

7. Chapter 9: SEX, SUBJECTIVITY AND
REPRESENTATION Continues
SEXED SUBJECTS
Psychoanalysis, Feminism and Sexed
Subjectivity
Regulating Sexuality
Chodorow: Masculinity and Femininity
Phallocentric Psychoanalysis
Julia Kristeva: The Semiotic and the
Symbolic

8. Chapter 9: SEX, SUBJECTIVITY AND
REPRESENTATION Continues
Judith Butler: Between Foucault and
Psychoanalysis
The Performativity of Sex
Identification and Abjection
Drag: Recasting and Symbolic
The Discipline and the Fiction of
Identity

9. Chapter 9: SEX, SUBJECTIVITY AND
REPRESENTATION Continues
Queer Theory
Alphabet Soup
‘The Transgender Tipping Point’
Terms in Transition
Transphobic Feminists?

10. Chapter 9: SEX, SUBJECTIVITY AND
REPRESENTATION Continues
MEN AND MASCULINITY
Problematic Masculinity
The Roots of Male Addiction
The ‘Betrayal’ of the Modern Man

11. Chapter 9: SEX, SUBJECTIVITY AND
REPRESENTATION Continues
GENDER, REPRESENTATION AND MEDIA CULTURE
Images of Women
The Bitch, the Witch
and the Matriarch
Affirmation and
Denial
Women of
The Taming of the
Shrew
Gendered Toys
Colour Coding
Barbie
Adventure Time
The Problem of
Accuracy

12. Chapter 9: SEX, SUBJECTIVITY AND
REPRESENTATION Continues
Subject Positions and the Politics of
Representation
The Slender Body
Leaning in to Capitalism
Madonna’s Performance
Raunch Culture
Sex Positive Feminism

13. Chapter 9: SEX, SUBJECTIVITY AND
REPRESENTATION Continues
Lady Gaga
Gaga and Madonna
Gagalogy
Is ‘it’ a Woman or a Man?
Gaga Feminism
Not So gaga over Gaga

14. Chapter 9: SEX, SUBJECTIVITY AND
REPRESENTATION Continues
Gender in Cyberspace
Cyborg Manifesto
Gendered Cyberhate
Feminist Digilantism
The Question of Audiences