WMST 2000 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Judith Leyster, Sofonisba Anguissola, Mary Astell
7 Apr 2016
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Gender/sex/sexuality is performative , this performance she says is not voluntary and is socially prescribed behaviours passed on from one generation to the next. A philosopher, and feminist theorist, her book was a critique of patriarchy. (social, political, religious means used to justify female inferiority) Phenomenology; the world = combination of natural world and human relationships. In this way beauvoir examines interaction between gendered self" and gendered world"; and how social ideas of femininity shape women"s experience of self. The forces that exploit the diference between sex and nature, decide that sexual activity or diferentiation deines the relations of the sexes. Beauvoir rejects the view, saying that this is not something evident to our humanness. Of plato"s notion that women are worthy of the guardian class if they model themselves after men, beauvoir says that equality does not equal sameness. And that erasing sexual diference still manages to establish masculinity as authoritative.
