HIS102Y1 Lecture Notes - Oliva Sabuco, Marriageable Age, Richard Napier
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Hotter men, colder women, and the one-sex model. Constructing gender, scientific truth", and the practice of medicine. Epistemology a theory of knowledge as objective truth and the body, feminist science. Science facts, reason, rationality, also: sicnece is deepely intertwined with politics and social, science is procieved as objective truth as fact, but science has been used to enhance gender inequalities. Matter and the body and the idea of social construction most of the things that we accept as objective truth has been created, its abstract. Porous boundaries of religion, natural philosophy, science, magic. What counts as a medical truth, how does the society construct reinforce gender inequality: effects of medical truths" on gendered experience of the body. How u understand of the body based on the knowledge u have at the time. 3)medical practice and the female body, the social context of how medical truths" shape historically specific societies.