WS204 Lecture Notes - Essentialism, Eugenics, Feminist Theory

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Waitresses- restaurants (the better you look the more tips you get and the even more the restaurant makes) Difference between the word sex and gender . Sex: arbitrary in terms of what we think (not clear) it"s a problematic category. Males born with small testicles raise as female females born with engorged clitoris raised as male. Culturally its clear in how we raise female and males. Chromosomes (would change our ideas about male/female) Not all women are equal race, class, heterosexual/homophobic. We evaluate people in terms of who they are and then blame them . (ex. Dental issues we don"t think of how costly that might be clothes . Poverty not enough housing, proper living conditions. Essentialism: all white people are all boys are all __ are :stereotypes establishes who the dominant group is not everyone is valued the same.

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