WSTA01H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Simone De Beauvoir, Androcentrism, Alice Walker
25 Oct 2014
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That"s on small step for man, one giant leap for mankind -neil armstrong: focused more towards men, doesn"t include everyone, symbolic inhalation. Just words: women were symbolically excluded from the national anthem, a campaign was launched to restore the national anthem to a gender neutral language. Its reflects and shapes and our we understand our world: the way we stand and not think anything of it, we are constantly receiving messages that are patriarchy. The two way process: our system of language-< our conception of reality. Exercise: find examples of gendered languages: superman, mailman, fireman. Linguistics sexism: words used to describe men, persistant, cautious, forceful, distinguished. October 20th, 2014: carefree bachler, words used to describe, nagging, hesitant, picky, bitchy. Gendered names and titles in names: first names are often gendered. Exercise: find examples: female writer (group a: j k rowling, jane austin, marget atwood, female visual artist (group b, freda cargo.
