[FEM2109] - Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam (49 pages long!)

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Women's Studies
• Course: FEM 2109
• Professor: Mythili Rajiva

Document Summary

Genetic manipulation affects multiple aspects of life safety/quality of food; health & stability of environment; struggle bet. Most women don"t see themselves as masters of anything . Man"s drive to dominate always dangerous to women, children, other living things. Men associate women with nature and have sought to exploit and control both, rather than honouring feminine principle and natural world. Local resistance is strong; 1000s of costa ricans have marched in streets to protest their gov"t"s collusion. Worldwide integration of government, policies, cultures, social movements, media, technology, and financial markets through trade and exchange ideas. Term emerged in 1990"s and gained traction in the new millennium (2000"s) Traditional globalization manly looks at macro level issues (larger institutions) New globalization tends to look also at the micro (smaller aspects of everyday life) Characterized by democratization, cultural diffusion, regional and wider armed conflicts, militarization, terrorism, and widening disparities between nations and within nations. Democratization: spread of western ideals of democracy.