WS100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Internalized Oppression, Sexology, Heterosexuality
January 12
- Sexology: addressed the conditions of sex, what is acceptable and what is not
acceptable
- Defined the importance of heterosexuality
- How structures of relationships were set up
- Virgiia Wolf as a riter, hat is truth ad ho is truth?
- ho profits fro truth?
- Her and her husband make their own publishing house
- “he ould’t use ords like akid to put ephasis o ho e ruled
- “he rites a ook alled Orlado, harater shifts geder idetit
- She wrote about war and its masculinity
- Wrote a ook alled A roo of oe’s o aout the roles feales are gie like eig
a good daughter and wife
- It was considered that when women write, they write about dumb things
- She would walk the streets of London alone at night even though she could get arrested
for it
- “he got too fed up ith oe’s rights so she filled her pokets ith roks ad alked
into the river to drown herself
- Simone DeBouvior
- “he studied philosoph ee though it as usuall see as a es stud
- She outperformed everyone
- She talked aout uiersal truths, eaig that eeroe orked alog these rules
- Girls learn to sit with their legs together, not to raise their arms (they were learning to
not take up a lot of space)
- Taught to never speak over the voices of men
- Learn to look cute and beautiful so you can be deemed as a potential mate
- Notion of othering, other people of colour, immigrants, etc...
- People ho are i positios of priilege other others ho e eliee are lesser tha
us
- Internalized oppression: when people who are gettig othered realize it ad start to
believe it
- Whe girls o’t fight for other girls to esure that iases o’t otiue
- The gaze he people look at ou ad ou oder hat the are thikig aout ou
- When people get cat-called or when someone gets a picture taken of them that they
do’t ko, those are eaples of the gaze ad eig othered
- People a feel he the are gettig othered
- These notions impact people for the rest of their lives
- She wrote in French so when it went to the translator he took a lot about women in
histor out eause it as dull to read
- Eaple: he to oe’s husads died the said the fiall hae freedo
- The first wave of feminism ends in the early 1920s
- Existentialism
- The first lobotomy was done on a middle-aged oa ho as too hsterial
- Barbie was produced for men
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