WST 103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Eternal Feminine, Immanence, Circular Reasoning
13 Mar 2017
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Situation (following beauvoir, young argues: every human existence is defined by its situation (142) Essentialism (the notion that differences between men and women are inherent, natural, ahistorical: young is not an essentialist because she thinks about situation which challenges essentialism. Phenomenology (concerned with human lived experience: young talks about movement through space which is a lived human experience. Erwin straus on the remarkable difference in the manner of throwing of the two sexes (141) How does a girl throw, according to straus: only uses arm and shoulder, not so much the rest of the body, boy uses entire body, lateral movement, makes use of space. Does young agree with straus" assessment: no she doesn"t agree- he just blames it on this feminine essence and doesn"t have any other way to example it. Feminine and masculine characteristics are: not acquired, natural, unchanging across time and place, not subject to historical change (ahistorical, fixed)
