WSTA03H3 Study Guide - Socialist Feminism
28 Apr 2011
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Gendered behaviours, roles, scripts, identities are written on bodies. We meet our basic needs by basic productive abilities. Interests of men and women are not crucially different. Freud says: human is born with a basic psychological structure. ** ego t ries to stabilize id and superego in humans. Born within a web of linguistic, cultural and social relations. Human beings are rational and self- interested with stable and coherent ideas. ** freud: the sexual life of adult women. Pays attention to discourse and ideology of colonialism. Rejects universalist and unitary conceptions of human nature. Women are able to do what a man can do. Defined by the way she is located in the web of social and economic production. Socialist: capitalism and patriarchy make a woman who she is is a "dark continent" for psychology . Women have moral inferiority and cannot develop into full moral creatures struggles. Women are passive, dark, natural, low and/or generally negative.
