POL201Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: The Feminine Mystique, Blackboard, Post-Structuralism
10 Apr 2016
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Gender (credited to ann oakley, 1972) is distinct from sex: it is a social and cultural construction, and gender relation describe the social meaning of male and female. It and determines status and role in society: gender is a system of social hierarchy. Sex is biological and physiological: the roles that men and woman play in society are not biologically determined, feminist believe that gender roles are socially constructed and therefore can be deconstructed. They are socially determined, changing and changeable: although they may be justified as being required by culture over religion (cid:1) A movement dedicated to woman"s political, social, economic equality. A political project to understand and therefore, change women"s inequality, exploitation or oppression . Feminist theory goal: is to explain why woman are subordinated and unequal gender relations (cid:1) (cid:1) Feminist may disagree on many issues and strategies/methods of the struggle to achieve woman"s liberation.
