WOMENST 1A03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Gender Studies, Intersectionality

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Feminist terminology since the 1980"s (they want to be taken seriously) Sounds like social science instead of strident activism. Gender in objective sounding and doesn"t sound threatening. 1970-1980 women studies later changed to gender studies in 1990"s. Draws attention to the inability of considering women separately from men. Category man and woman have a relationship and exist because of each other. The social construction of the category woman implies the social construction of man . Cultural meaning of living in a gendered body. Science is not value neutral: one- sex model. When a woman"s corpse was opened up the scientists were expecting to see a man"s insides. Scientists thought woman had an inverted penis that would fall out if they jumped. The male body was the perfected form of a person: different model 18th and 19th century. Since women had breasts they were conceived as weak and baby makers .

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