WGS101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Judy Chicago, Penis Envy, Alice Walker

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Women's and Gender Studies
• Course: WGS101
• Professor: Felice Lifshitz

Document Summary

Women"s and gender studies - september 12, 2016. Emily martin - feminist article / scienti c discourse. Is there any discourse that is immune to cultural preconceptions about gender/fertilization. 2 biological processes are supposed to be equivalent / can be objectively viewed but the discourse differentially evaluates them (male = positive while female = negative) Male sperm is active while female egg is passive and if the egg is active then it is bad . Active / passive dichotomy or the gender binary (male = active / female = passive) is the. It is a man"s place to be active and move forward / penetrate the world while woman stays in one place / caregiver. E. g - woman takes man"s last name, man asks woman out, Subject (male, thinking person) / object (female) Scientistic - distance from scienti c (implies truth) Gendered analysis of origin of species .