WS 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Margaret Sanger, Tabula Rasa, Cardiology
31 Jan 2020
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Intersectionality: the interconnected nature of social categorizations such as race, class, and gender as they apply to a given individual or group, regarded as creating overlapping and independent systems of discrimination or disadvantage. Cis-gender: denoting or relating to a person whose sense of personal identity and gender corresponds with their birht sex. Plato argued that all knowledge was inherited through your parent and when you were told something you didn"t learn it you were just reminded of it. Aristotle however argued that all humans were born with a blank slate and built on it with influence from their environment. Sex was considered the realm of religion, so much of what was thought or known was gained in relation to relgiion. We thought we knew stuff about sex, we didn"t. Babies came out of the male ejaculate fully formed and went into the womb which was thought as an oven. During victorian era- women"s value in her pre-marriage chastity.
