Women's Studies 1020E Lecture 1: Women Studies Lecture Notes- Second Semester (January- April)
11 Jan 2018
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Women studies: lecture notes b (from last lecture) Enlightenment: philosophical changes in western europe in 17th centuries. Celebration of science as a neutral tool of knowledge. Don"t have to rely on the church or the class structure of kings and nobles because science can help use discover truth. Beginning around the end of the eighteenth century, as enlightenment rationalism replaced faith and superstition as the source of authority . In societies in which there has been systematic discrimination against specific racial groups, inevitably it has been accompanied by attempts to justify such policies on scientific grounds william tucker. Science gets used to support prevailing ideologies around both gender and race. Ideas: race is rooted in biological difference: says: caucasions have. The biggest brains (and this gets taken to mean: the highest intellectual capacity. Some sexes have bigger brains than others. George romanes, not much later than morton, was measuring cranial volume for men"s and women"s brains.
