SOSC 1350 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Simone De Beauvoir, Socialist Feminism, Liberal Feminism
23 Nov 2017
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Lecture 2: thinking about gender & race in socio- Thinking about gender and race in socio-legal studies. The law in all its majestic impartiality forbids both rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets and to steal bread. One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman. Anatole france quote vis- -vis the official version of the law b. feminisms, or, why not all feminist approaches are the same. Liberal feminism: argue that we need to reform not revolution; feel that we can work within the law to bring about social change; least radical. They would say the official version of law does match how the law operate, but they believe we can still hold it up as an ideal. Work within the law to bring social change for women in canada. Ideas tend to be bias to other types of women. heterosexual. Ideas tend to be bias to other types of women.
