GSWS 122 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Consciousness Raising, Juvenile Court

• School: UPenn
• Department: Gender, Sexuality & Women's Studies
• Course: GSWS 122
• Professor: Professor

Document Summary

Gender order = arguing against is the idea that most of the elements of the gender order are. People claim a place in the gender order , but there are people outside the order. Gender is a matter of social relations, and not simply built on simple dichotomous bodies. Ensure people are not denied rights/opportunities based on their characteristics (eg. race, gender) that should not be germane. Bodily differences in families (eg. women are served smaller portions in the family) Multiple forms of feminism, but she proposes a working definition of feminism (p7 of freedman) > what men and women are responsible for should be regarded as equally important. > men have been privileged in many ways. Our knowledge of it depends on shared social understandings and beliefs on the that other same share people confidence depends eg. money. We can only understand world through interpretations that are jointly created and passed on and altered.