SOCIOL 2Q06 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Mary Wollstonecraft, Intersectionality, Gender Mainstreaming
11 May 2016
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Questions to consider when looking at feminism theory; Sex; biological distinction* between males and females which is a complex interplay of genes, hormones, environment and behaviour. One of the major divisions in society -- cuts across all the other dimensions. Culture distinction* personal traits and patterns of behaviours, including responsibilities, opportunities, and privileges that a culture attaches to being a female or male. It varies from culture to culture all cultures have males and females, but what their traits/desirability/roles can vary depending on the culture you"re looking at. The unequal distribution of wealth, power, and privilege between men and women. Gender inequality refers to actual inequality (men access to political power, etc. and women less) actual existing inequality. While sexism is the concept of one sex being better than the other -- the prejudices of one sex. The belief that one sex is innately superior to the other and the resulting discrimination.
