WMST 2000 Study Guide - Final Guide: Odysseus, Matriarchy, List Of Civilisations In The Culture Series

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Women's Studies
• Course: WMST 2000
• Professor: Ingrid L.Stefanovic

Document Summary

Example: men opening door is gesture of respect but in a way its saying i can over power you - c. h. s. No social contract of how men and woman should interact. Modern feminists contain irrational hostility to men inability to note sexes are equal but different. Gender trouble: feminism & the subversion of identity (1990) Said nobody is born one gender or the other . Biology is not the bottom line- born with a sex, not a gender. Gender is not set in stone and is bigger than biology. Institutional powers are trying to keep us in our gender place. It is something we learn from our parents and is passed from generation to generation. Jewish widow from town under siege of the assyrian army. She takes his sword and beheads him accompanied by her maid servant. Brings the head back to show the town people so they know they"re safe.