WMST 1000Y Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Heforshe, Antifeminism, David Suzuki
4 Apr 2016
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The polaris award was awarded to an inuit throat singer. Her performance featured a list of native women: women kidnapped, murdered or presumed murder. Obama began a campaign that fought sexual assault on campus called it"s on us . Our systems of oppression are man made, not natural. European colonies felt the patriarchy was natural and was confused by the. Anthropometry has been used/abused to justify or start hierarchies. 3 groups were used to inform this: disability, sex and race (all. Ideas of race and gender in unequal social systems affected by class differently) Larry summers, a former president of harvard, made a speech of the underrepresentation of women and race in academics. He suggested innate sex differences were the reason women were less competent in fields like math or science. Many media outlets and professionals highlighted success of women in science and math. The book women are from venus, men are from mars .
