PHIL 452 Lecture Notes - Institutional Racism, Masculinity, The Second Sex
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Summarizethe major thinkers within the chapters, detailing who they are, what they did, and how it relates to the chapter topic (e. g. ch. 2 relates work, ch. 3 relates to social. If you find a new term in your section and are not sure what thinker it belongs to, list the term and give its definition at the end. Simone de beauvoir authored a book called the second sex, which focused onwomen"ssubordination across cultures and throughout history. Drawing on faucaults research from discipline and punish and the history of sexuality, Volume i, she argued that the idea of sex is a form of discourse which organizes what scientists observe into biological explanations. In this sense, she states that the essential sexual constitution of males and females is indicative of a deeply embedded discourse which connects biology with social constructions. In the 1960"s, betty friedan addressed the problem that has no name, in her book entitled.
