SA 150 Study Guide - Final Guide: Gender Role, Unemployment Benefits, Bourgeoisie

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Sociology and Anthropology
• Course: SA 150
• Professor: Suzanna Crage

Document Summary

Gender = highly contested (area of conlict) Gender sex: sex: biological division into male and female (what you"re born w/, gender: socio. term for roles and characterisics society assigned to women and men, typically carrying noion of women"s inequaliies. Parallel and socially unequal division into f and m. What you choose for yourself and how you live your life: gender role: aitudes and expectaions of behaviours related to being m or f; assigned at birth, based on sex. Feminist liberalism mainly beneits middle-class western, white women; less successful in promoing interest of women of dif. class, ethnicity, sexual orientaion, and naionality. Feminist essenialism/essenialist feminism: looks @ dif. b/w way men and women think and argues for equality (female superiority) in that diference: women"s morality and maternal thinking involve social norms that are. Confuses natural phenomenon w/ women"s strategies for coping w/ patriarchal demands (maybe women were forced to be maternal by the patriarchal society)