WGST 2500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Hysterectomy, Justifiable Homicide, Menstruation

• School: University of Windsor
• Department: Women's and Gender Studies
• Course: WGST 2500
• Professor: Rita Hasse

Document Summary

Throughout history women have been seen as: different or as belonging to the other". Thinking about men in women in two completely different categories. Women were the complete opposite of men. Women were seen as unnatural disfigured men : weak (physically, emotionally and intellectually. Direct correlation between not eating and corsets. Wealthy women wore tight corsets making them faint. Working women did not wear corsets but worked long 14 hour days and took care of the households. 1/30 would die during childbirth while giving birth because of bacteria being transferred through doctors not washing their hands: delicate and ornamental. A women"s value was based on her appearance. Wealthy women could afford to look a certain way and be a husbands showcase. Female infantize; killed females, little girls right at birth because they wanted males and females were worth nothing. China still has tendencies to abort female babies.