FEM 1100 Study Guide - Comprehensive Final Guide: Emergency Contraception, Fertility Awareness, Nichola Goddard
29 Nov 2016
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2nd wave- emerged in the 70s, anti-war. Roots in the student, civil rights, and women"s movements of the (cid:883)96(cid:882)s and (cid:498)where are the women? (cid:499) - in science, in textbooks, in institutions, as. Premise: changing what we know about women will change women"s and men"s lives. Two foundations of women"s studies: intersectionality: examines how categories of identity (ex. Sex: physiological differences that differentiate male and female humans. Perhaps one in 2,000 babies is born with the biological characteristics of both sexes or of neither sex entirely. Gender: social and cultural expression of sex; not biological sex; femininity and masculinity. Gender refers to the cultural expectations and societal arrangement by which women and men have different experiences in society. Influences all aspects of our lives; our thinking, our interaction, our life chances. Can be seen in the experiences of both men and women. Gender is not stable, fixed; doing rather than being; performativity. Sex/gender; not a stable dichotomy: not straightforward mapping.
