WOMS202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Wangari Maathai, Caster Semenya, Friedrich Engels

• School: University of Delaware
• Department: Women's Studies
• Course: WOMS202
• Professor: Cherrin Susan

Document Summary

Theme 1: global women"s studies sees gender inequality as historical, sociocultural. Accepts that there is a category known as women . Accepts that women experience inequality because they are women. Rejects the theory that this inequality is natural. Karl marx (1818-1883) and friedrich engels (1820-1895) Material conditions of life will shape family and social institutions in a way that has a negative impact on women. Sex: biological difference between females and males based on their reproductive/sex organs. Gender: socially constructed roles, behaviors, activities, and attributes that a society considers appropriate for males and females. (because i is socially constructed it changes over time and by region) Traditional/old way of thinking, but this is now being challenged. Intersex people estimated 17/100,000 people are intersex meaning their sex organs are neither male nor female. Caster semenya very fast in the olympics, tested and found a lot of testosterone in her system and found she was intersex.