WGST 1808 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Essentialism, Ethnocentrism, Intersectionality
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Offers explanations about the way in which the social and political worlds operate and our place in those worlds. Provides a framework for understanding and analyzing (breaking down) events and problems. These frameworks are both conscious and unconscious, influence how we live our lives, what we believe, and how we behave towards others. Written with a purpose/bias (always about something and for someone) Allow us to explain events and phenomena and define key concepts to develop an analysis. Epistemology refers to the theory of knowledge or we know what we know. Our everyday choices we make are grounded in theory. Subjective knowledge: knowing what will happen based on personal experiences. Objective: our observations of something happening that we cant control the outcome of. Feminist theory provides frameworks for understanding our lives, the means to envision the way things could be different and strategies for taking action and making change.