WOMENST 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Determinism, Dominate, Patricia Hill Collins

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Women's Studies
• Course: WOMENST 1AA3
• Professor: Karen Balcom

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Possible topics: women in black peace activists, raging grannies social justice activists, miss g project and gender in ontario high schools, greenbelt movement: feminism and environmentalism, missing and murdered indigenous women in canada. 6: rape as a weapon of war (materials still under development, your own topic. Feminisms, hierarchy, difference: key concepts for the course. Class agenda: activism projects vs. research projects details on research projects, key concepts: defining our terms ! Reproductive biology ( what"s between the legs: social roles and responses (gender) Used to express socially and historically constructed assumptions about men and women : also what someone chooses to identify as. Argument against people with multiple chromosomes: external genitalia. A complex interplay of genes hormones, environment and behaviour with loopback effects between bodies and society (judy root aulette and judy wittner, gendered worlds) Alice dreger, professor of clinical medical humanities and bioethics at northwesetern.