WOMENST 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Intersectionality, Determinism, Dominate

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

Document Summary

Difference, hierarchies, intersections: key concepts for the course. The big picture from last week and transition into this week: We want to break down the idea of (stable) (unitary) (we know what it is) Last class: by talking about how the meaning of inhabiting a sexed body (and what is a sexed body?) is conditioned by the sex/gender system. This class: by insisting on the radical multiplicity of women: difference, Class agenda: activism projects vs. research projects details on research projects, key concepts: defining our terms. What do we mean by intersectionality: review and extension, review: can be in determined in/by biology. From last week: sex, gender, critique of biological determinism/essentialism. Biological determinism (cid:523)as applied to (cid:498)women(cid:499)(cid:524) is the idea that all women are or: gendered binaries and the valuing of the masculine over the. Gender and gender differentiation is also, according to many feminist scholars, one of the primary means of signifying and representing power and hierarchy.