SSH 301 Study Guide - Final Guide: Human Body, Determinism, Animal Husbandry

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Social Sciences and Humanities
• Course: SSH 301
• Professor: Melanie Knight

Document Summary

Democratizing biology: reinventing biology from a feminist, ecological, and. Dominant casts patterns of human social behavior as biologically determined, ignoring the ways in which they are in reality outcomes of social prejudice and bias on the basis of race, class, and gender. Biology is the basis of all food production systems that are linked to survival and to women"s work and knowledge in the third world. Based on the metaphor of man"s empire over inferior creatures , rather than. Imperative that excluded groups like women and third world communities have a role in reinventing biology on democratic principles. Latest application of biology, genetic engineering must be evaluated in the context of alternatives. Between human and non-human, men and women, and white and colored people. White men over nature, women and all nonwhite races. Enlightenment was a period in which human beings became seen as separate from other species.