GSWS 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Essentialism, Rape Crisis Center, Homophobia
5 Sep 2020
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A gender diary - ann snitow p. 9-37. Minimizers = feminists who want to undermine the category woman , to minimize meaning of sex diff. Some ppl don"t want to seen as a woman at all. Maximizers = feminists who want to keep the category woman (or feel they can"t do otherwise) but want to change its meaning, to reclaim and elaborate the social being woman , to empower her. Some ppl want to reclaim being a woman. Radical feminists = perspective within feminism that calls for a radical reordering of society in which male supremacy is eliminated in all social and economic contexts. View society as fundamentally a patriarchy in which men dominate and oppress women. Cultural feminists = utilizes essentialist understandings of male and female diffs as the foundoation of women"s subordination in society. Female nature or female essence that revalidate undervalued female attributes. Essentialists = view gender as rooted in biological sex differences.
