WOMS 287 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Class Conflict, Primitive Communism, Cumulate Rock
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*explaining women"s situations (5 theories: traditional religious and theological, biological, 18th century french enlightenment/modernization (1700, evolutionary theory and argument of charlotte perkins gilman, marxist theory. Most people claim to be/have a christian background. Eve takes the fall and is blamed more than adam same story only a. Eve was a leader and adam was a follower. Elizabeth was the editor of women"s bible and the founder of women"s suffrage. Believed a women"s womb was mobile and could move throughout her body. Men and women"s bodies more alike than different. *men and women have small amounts of each other"s hormones. *at menopause, women fail to create more estrogen and progesterone making festooneries more prominate. Gender = what society thinks is right (blue = boy, pink = girl) Mary wollstonecraft (british) -thought both men and women were created equal. A vindication of the rights of women (1792) Women/men were human beings first, therefore should be treated equal.