WGS101H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Ableism

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16 Feb 2018
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An intro to women"s studies: gender in a transnational world. Feminists are interested in tracing the ways that women & men have been identified, described & categorized by science in any given location & time period. Scholars of medieval studies found that 2 gender sys that seemed to be natural had not been so for all time or everywhere in the world, in turkey & greece eunuchs comprised a. 3rd gender & played an important role in society. In europe and us, the rising belief in scientific explanations that proposed biological differences as the foundation of racial & sexual difference placed diff women in new kinds of unequal relationships. These new ideas divided women along the line of race & class as well as culture & nation, ex. In western culture, the white women are the symbol of ideal motherhood.

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