POLS 2150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Moral Majority, Classical Liberalism, Participatory Democracy

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLS 2150
• Professor: Carol Dauda

Document Summary

**patments readings on suffrage is very important for the test** The feminist challenge: first and second wave movements. The second wave" > many second wave femisits began to question the image of the rational detached male. Challenges from second wave" feminists biology divides us into males and female sex roles derive from biology. Challenge to modernist view of sex, sex roles. Separation of sex from gender > feminist analysis, separates sex from gender. Gender refers to social being, social role, that is cultural, historical, political. Gender is constructed socially and so is subject to change. Questioned the rational, detached male (second wave of feminism) Social and political effects of sex allowed for a different image of humanity this allows for a different image of humanity. Offers a new voice > bringing a new experience for women, a new voice with a different point of view.