SA 150 Lecture Notes - New France, Reverse Discrimination, Justice As Fairness

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Sociology and Anthropology
• Course: SA 150
• Professor: Ann Travers

Document Summary

4 ways to address sports and gender injustice: eliminate all sex segregated sporting spaces no men"s only or women"s only. The way racially segregated sports produces social injustice parallel to gender injustice. Follow practices such as dividing by weight class, height, or ability: reorganize sport away from masculinity, competitiveness, and hierarchy for everyone. I. e. hackey sack organizing sports in a co-operative way instead of coming up with firsts or second, in a healthy way. Athletes not role models, playing through with injuries, training until close to injury. Argument: is viewing competitive sports a good thing: make the gender continuum visible and focus on heroic women athletes as gender troubling figures. Take notice of the differences that the difference between each man is greater than the average man and woman. Bringing out women athletes as role models. Equal recognition & redistribution fraser: abolish all male-only sporting spaces while maintaining aggregated spaces for girls and women (with soft transgender inclusive boundaries)