WOMENST 1AA3 Study Guide - Winter 2019, Comprehensive Midterm Notes - Heterosexuality, Gender Studies, Epistemology

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Women's Studies
• Course: WOMENST 1AA3
• Professor: Kascindra Shewan

Document Summary

First wave : focuses on suffrage of woman (right to vote)- mostly white women. Second wave : focuses on ways in which feminism approached right to work, right to equal pay, focused on family and sexuality. Challenges the idea that there is truth, universal kinds of knowledges that apply in all places and all times. Institutions: a term that refers to formalized structures that organize social relations and individual behaviour according to the dominant norms and values of a given community. Structures : the material and physical world around us. Practices : a term for talking about what other people do, their activities and the way those activities demonstrate how they fit (or not) into social structures and institutions. All knowledge is situated- in other worlds, that it is reflective of the specific historical and contemporary contexts in which it was produced.