PSY 119 Lecture : Psych of Gender Ch 1 - 3
Document Summary
As an existentialist, de beauvoir believed that existence precedes essence; one is not born a woman but becomes one. It is the (social) construction of woman as the quintessential other that de beauvoir identifies as fundamental to women"s oppression. 1949/2011 she published the second sex, a detailed analysis of women"s oppression. Pakistani girl malala yousafzai who received the nobel peace prize for advocating for. Lavern cox was the first transgender person to win an emmy for a documentary on trans. Another important case of progress was the me too movement founded by tarana burke to support survivors of sexual violence. The trump administration reinstated the ban on transgender people from serving the us armed forces in 2019. Terminology important: effective communication about sex and gender, understanding the basic terminology is, not all scholars agree on the definitions of terms such as sex and gender. Sex refers to the category that an individual occupies.
