Assignment task: Please read the article "Enke The Education of Little Cis" page 61- 76
Question 1:
a) Enke writes that the manipulations required to produce the categories of "woman" and "man" are "naturalized and mystified." What does this mean?
b) They go on to tell us that the categories of "woman" and "man" are not natural, that these "are coercive and compulsory, and that their power is built into institutions that structure what we do with our bodies, among other things" (Enke, 2012, pg. 62). Give an example of how our culture uses coercion or compulsion to enforce the gender binary
Question 2:
a) What statistics does Enke give to illustrate the necessity of this insight?
b) Explain Enke's argument that disability, ability and identity are always political.
Question 3: How does Dr. Bowers identify? Explain why one might say that she is a cisgender, cissexual woman.