WGST 2800 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Patricia Hill Collins, Royal Ontario Museum, Combahee River

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Women's and Gender Studies
• Course: WGST 2800
• Professor: Megan Rivers- Moore

Document Summary

Chimamanda ngozi adichie danger of a single story. Stereotypes come from somewhere but it"s not enough. Scrutinize truth of what we speak and truth of that language by which we speak it. Gender: complex, culturally and historically specific social system that organizes and regulates interactions between men and women. Men/masculinity given more social value than women/femininity helps determine access to capital and resources. Connected to other systems that organize social interactions race, sexuality, ability. Historically emphasis on patriarchy, male domination; dualistic, overgeneralized perspective; essentialist. Struggling against racial, sexual, and class oppression. Synthesis of oppressions create conditions of our lives (intersectionality) profoundly racist. Central legislation governing first nations people in canada since 1876. Also a gendered process divisions of labor. Reserve system aimed to impose british/christian/agricultural patter : structural how institutions are organized to reproduce subordination, hegemonic images, symbols, ideas, and ideologies that shape social, interpersonal patterns of interaction b/w individuals & groups.