WOMENST 1A03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Pseudohermaphroditism, Even Language, Public Sphere

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Women's Studies
• Course: WOMENST 1A03
• Professor: Wafa Hassan

Document Summary

January 10, 2017: intersectionality: introduced as a concept by a legal scholar named. These categories make up our realities and have consequences for the way we live our lives: can someone give me an example of how the categories of he and. Heteronormativity: as an ideology a system that normalizes and reinforces gender roles and gender binaries. The ideology of heteronormativity normalizes heterosexuality as the only sexual orientation. Something this includes class (middle class) and race. Ideology: a shared set of values and beliefs within a group (i. e. within a nation) Prevailing value system among middle and upper classes during the. 19th century in both the us and britain. Identified the home as the women"s proper sphere. Idea that woman was the centre of the family, the light of the house or angel of the house . Enfranchise: to give someone the legal right to vote. Suffragist: a member of the women"s suffrage movement, male or female.