Women's Studies 2240F/G Lecture 11: Women's Studies 2240F - Lecture 11
17 Dec 2018
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Women"s studies 2240f foundation of feminist thought. Announcements: the professor will be away from friday until next thursday the ta will be holding office hours in her place. Female frigidity" if women can"t reach orgasm that way. It is a way of making women feel insecure about not living up to these expectations: frigid means cold in temperature, and essentially is a derogatory term toward women used by men. Media is powerful and that myth spreads, leading young women to assume that is the case and what they need to do to please a partner. In sex ed women are mainly taught about sexual disease and pregnancy, not sexual desire (passive, not active), and this contradicts what we see in movies (heterosexual, penetrative sex. ) Hysterical" or neurotic" because of the repression of their normal sexual urges. Women became unhappy, they got the headaches and shakes.
