WOMENST 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Personal Identity, Caster Semenya, Cisgender

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

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Feminisms, hierarchy, difference: key concepts for the course. Class agenda: activism projects vs. research projects, key concepts: defining our terms. Due to the nature of the course material, disagreements are likely to arise. All students are expected to treat their peers and the teaching team with respect. Sexist, racist, homo/transphobic, and other oppressive language and behaviour is not acceptable. If you are unsure of what this means, or if you feel you are being silenced or marginalized in the classroom, please speak with dr. balcom or your ta. Gender: (cid:498)used to express socially and historically constructed assumptions about men & women(cid:499) Ws 1aa3 week two 2015 (cid:498)a complex interplay of genes hormones, environment and behaviour with loopback effects between bodies and society(cid:499) (judy root aulette and judy wittner, gendered worlds) Alice dreger, professor of clinical medical humanities and bioethics at. Northwesetern university school of medicine (cid:498)this is not a solvable problem.