WGS101H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Upper Class, Heterosexism, Heterosexuality

• School: UTM
• Department: Women and Gender Studies
• Course: WGS101H5
• Professor: Cassandra Lord

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Second paragraph what is the event about how it relates to. Two paragrpah, one page, cover page no bibliography. Lecture 4: the scientific and social construction of sex, Western thought at it relates to science is not objective, it comes from a particular point of view. Gender norms, dominant, men = penis, masculine, women = feminine, vagina, Not natural, nor neutral science comes from a particular point of view. Think categories are made, we do not discover reality we invent it. Science think we are discovering points of ideology. Intersectionality: - the markers that intersect have differences, differences within white ,black, religious groups. P. 59) cite: miss identifying specific needs of others, privledge power professor of uni, class operates racial advantage. Spaces are not empty, go to this place (that"s a space) Political in a sense (cure for cancer), not only issue of individual point, but the bank with pink ribbons.