WGST 1F90 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Genesis Creation Narrative, Wgst, Institute For Operations Research And The Management Sciences

• School: Brock University
• Department: Women's and Gender Studies
• Course: WGST 1F90
• Professor: Jenny Janke

Document Summary

Finds" a passive egg just waiting" to be fertilized. (men are active doers" while women are passive recipients. ") Pa: differences become normalized and we fail to examine who creates them, why they were created, the ge | purpose (someone benefits, always) 3: men and women as subjects of representation, note the text and the images in the following two advertisements. Hegemonic notions: hegemonic masculinity: premised upon a white, able bodied, heterosexual male, hegemonic masculinity exists because masculinity ( and its supposed traits) is valued over femininity, example: western culture values independence over dependence. Emotional strength versus weakness: hegemonic femininity does not exist; versions of acceptable femininity. We tend to overvalue one half of binary and undervalue the other. Conclusion: representations are not benign; they have currency, hold power, women are men are frequently represented in different and unequal ways, women"s bodies are central to representation.