PSCI 2500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Kate Millett, Simone De Beauvoir, Gayle Rubin
19 Apr 2019
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Men tends to be more energetic, while women tend to conserve it. Men are more aggressive, the go getter. Sexual difference is all pervasive, exclusive and heterosexist. Gender is a social, political, cultural product. Gender is a social organization of sexual difference (moi, 1999, 28) Simone de beauvoir, kate millett, gayle rubin, ann oakley. Societal assumptions and expectations about gender roles and differences. Gender relations become embedded in power and hierarchy (social norms: masculinity vs. femininity) Masculinity stereotypes is that he"s big, large. Femininity stereotypes are that she"s smaller, short hair, emotional. Gender is constitutive, different societies have different ways of producing gender across time (e. g. women with moustaches and men without beards) Institutional sites and processes, ideologies, distributional mechanisms that produce gender: Women in politics gets more praised because it"s uncommon for them to in that position, whereas men don"t because it"s common. Assumes all women share a moral platform.
