HUMA 1951 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Jesse Owens, Eugenics, Simone De Beauvoir
4 Oct 2013
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One is not born but becomes a woman simone de beauvoir. The key to thinking about patriarchy is the separation of the public as the domain of men and the private as the domain of women. The concept of difference has often been tied to biology in order to explain our differences. Difference is socially constructed by people within societies: our identity and roles are shaped by our histories and culture and therefore change over time and place. Difference is created within human interaction, within social relations of power. When we think of science, we think of objectiveness, rational, the notion of truth and factual. There is an assumption that if science claims the truth, there is no changing it. However truth itself is also a social construction. Science is constantly influenced by prevailing social mores of the time, as well as prevailing socio-economic and political developments (ie. rise of capitalism, imperial expansion)
