WMST 2000 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Avail, Clavichord, Jargon

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Women's Studies
• Course: WMST 2000
• Professor: Martina Meyer

Document Summary

Judith butler / gender trouble: theorized that gender and sexuality is performative, not biologically determined. Ideology of heterosexuality is based off of gender roles (for reproductive purposes: performativity of gender can be subversive, based off of an anatomy, identification will follow. One is not born but becomes a woman . Phenomenology: for phenomenologists, the world usually denotes a combination of the natural world and human relationships. A key aspect of phenomenology is the interaction between self and world, and the second sex may be best understood as a work of phenomenology in which beauvoir examines the interaction between the gendered self and the gendered world. The second sex looks at how social ideas of femininity shape women"s experiences of self: her argument for sexual equality takes two directions, exposes the ways that patriarchal ideology exploits sexual difference to create systems of inequality.