SOCI 1F90 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Emma Watson, United Nations Special Committee On Palestine, Masculinity
12 Apr 2016
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Video: emma watson at talking to the un council about feminism. Women: home bound :strong men move to protect and provide. Male social dominaion biologically determined due to superior hormones. Our gender relaions shape by this ancient division of labour. Hormones evolved to produce gendered behavior conducive for survival. Inconclusive links between hormones and behavior social context inluences hormones: empirically lawed i) speculaive ii) out of date iii) inaccurate depicion of women live. 2: no level playing ield for compeiion, extensive overlap of characterisics and abiliies between men and women, variaion in behaviour within a gender group isn"t explained. If biology is stable, how do we explain such gender variaions (she needs to understand that not all men are the same and don"t all act/think like she talks about) Organisms relaions between women and men including their relaive social value. Ideas and pracices associated with masculinity and femininity in a society.
