PSY 3121 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Typhoid Fever, Behaviorism, Devaluation
16 May 2018
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PSY3121A Dr. Mary-Theresa Howard
Study of Gender 02.05.18
Movie – My Feminism (beginning of 3rd wave of feminist movement – 90s onwards)
• Feminist – revolutionary word that implies change to social structure
o Cat e feiist /o eig ati-men
o 1st wave feminism – suffragettes; 2nd wave feminism – 60s
• Media portrays conflict w/o solution
• Porograph is asiall seual torture; prostitutes are ost ool tortured, ut doest ake it to
the news
o Pornography = female slavery, basically rape; eroticism = equal pleasure, sex
• Women are censored by patriarchy; they are prevented from expressing themselves
• Men are perceived as more violent b/c they show dominance by control; women can show their self-
defense, just dot hae asuliit to proe
• Must change the way ppl perceive sexuality b/c media makes a fortune out of sexual violence – not okay
to sa she asked for it after a oa has ee raped
• Many issues mentioned are still occurring and are still issues today
Movie – Women and Science
• Universities are very male-centered (engineering program)
• Discovery of the spread of Typhoid fever in the sewers that have not be rebuilt by asking why are people
in poorer areas have greater occurrence of Typhoid?
• Search for a new approach to solve environmental problems by introducing interdisciplinary approach
o More holistic, know different perspectives of the whole issue
• Women approach biological science differently – relationship with nature (trees, animals, etc.)
• Peggy doest eliee trees eed iproeet / the hae the ailit to sustai theseles
o opposed to researh / she didt agree philosophiall; her opiio as ot reeied as a
professional
• oes a of approahig siee ad researh is differet, therefore helps research develop, but is
sometimes undermined
Study of Gender
• women share global characteristics – reproduction, lack of power
• oes oeets hae helped iproe oes lies
• feminists believe in equality btwn men and women (no matter the ethnic/social/economic background) –
different forms of feminism i.e liberal (free thinkers), radical (driving societal shifts), cultural
History of the Study of the Sexes
• structuralism (study the body of men and women), functionalism (study the different body function btwn
men and women i.e reproductive system), behaviorism, psychoanalysis (different/similar ways of thinking
of men and women)
o gender study emphasizes differences, should also note the similarities to note what make us
human
• es oeet – taking up issues in their perspective
• psychology has tended to ignore women although women have contributed to psychology
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