SOSC 1185 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: True Women, Meritocracy
5 Jun 2017
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A belief that individuals can/should succeed or fail based on their own individual merits, abilities, efforts. This assumes that an individual is in control of their own destiny and that it is. Just world where individuals get what they deserve. Allos us to distinguish between entitlements for all versus unearned advantages and conferred dominance. Enables us to see and unlock multiple oppressions. Helps in the development of strategies for change and social justice using these insights constructing dominant gender ideals: historical origins dominant westerns gender ideas and stereotypes a. the doctrine of two spheres private sphere associated with women. In the 1850 was when we rst started to see housewives word being used to describe women and their work. Based on 4 main tenants purity, piety, submissiveness, domesticity. The idea that good women don"t have that much sex drives as bad girls . Piety: that women were religious, and they were a good moral re.
