HIST 3020 Lecture Notes - Christine De Pizan, Gerda Lerner, Grammatical Gender
16 Jan 2014
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Class suggestions: gender being performative, subjective, socially constructed. Notable women throughout time- emulate the good" behaviours (think dominant ** explained near the end of notes) Plutarch virtues of women : and seeing that many worthy things, both public and private, have been done by women, it is not amiss to give a brief historical account of those that are public . Show a woman a virtuous woman and they will model. Biographies of notable women (treated in isolation, taken out of context) Held up as examplars and models (not average people) Studies on women tended to assume the world was uniform. Goal is to understand the significance of the sexes, of gender groups in the historical past. Joan scott talks about the original ambiguities surrounding gender: gender is the constitutive element of social relationships based on perceived differences between the sexes and a primary way of signifying relationships of power .
