WGS200Y5 Study Guide - Final Guide: Gayle Rubin, Judith Butler, Audre Lorde
2 Feb 2017
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This is meant to help you focus on some key themes as you study for your final exam. You must study your lecture notes and the assigned readings from. January to the end of march in order to pass the exam. Understanding sexuality during ancient times 18th century, 19th century , Ancient greeks notions of sexuality and gender- similarity between the bodies but female inferior. Emily martin asserts that menstruation constructed as representative of dying, dead cells that ceases to have any function. She questions how come male sperm not seen as wasteful. The scientific language used constructs sperm as lively, vigorous, penetrating the egg and constructs the egg as static waiting to be penetrated. The egg needs to be rescued by the sperm or else it will die. Anne fausto- sterling: discuss how notions of gender and sexuality are socially constructed despite socially constructed differences.
