HREQ 1700 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Mantis, Militarism, Intersectionality

• School: York University
• Department: Human Rights and Equity Studies
• Course: HREQ 1700
• Professor: Elizabeth Brule

Document Summary

Time period civil rights movement, where people were fighting for equal rights (womens rights, gay rights, first nations rights). Large social movement during the 1960s; people called into question. Labor movement people fighting for the right to strike. Emergence of identity politics in context with the women"s movement (gender was negated for the struggles for equality) 1930s-1940s studies, questioned why in different tribal societies (pre- colonial) that women were dominant where they are deemed as submissive. Animals- female animals are also dominant (lioness, queen bee, black. Notions of feminity(naturally this way) didn"t apply to every female. 1970s and 1980s theory of sex roles, questioned learned gendered behavior. Gender norms had an impact on how men and women behaved in society through social expectations (men were allowed to be aggressive and unacceptable for women) > institutions of family, schooling, church, culture, marriage provided influence to gender normality"s (rewards, punishments, and sanctions)