WMST 2000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Laura Mulvey, Bell Hooks, Cassone

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Women's Studies
• Course: WMST 2000
• Professor: Amy Butchart

Document Summary

Wmst lecture #3 - girls night on network tv. The disturbing effect western beauty standards have on women across the world. Were losing bodies as fast as were losing languages , says prominent british psychotherapist susie orbach in the upcoming documentary the illusionist, Representing women in the renaissance, 1400-1600 ce women in frames. The civilization of renaissance in italy jakob burckhardt 1895, major supporter of the idea of cultural history" explored the relationship between art and the social institutions of daily life in his publication of 1860. Renaissance men reject the corporate values of medieval life. The renaissance was the birthplace of modern individualism reassessing burckhardt: Last 30 years the historical" female experience has been reappraised by scholars and researchers. Gender is today generally agreed to a social, as much as biological, construct (ie. judith butler) Women are construcdted" in accordance with patriarchal needs and societal ideals.