53-220 Study Guide - Fall 2018, Comprehensive Midterm Notes - Menstruation, Aristotle, Victorian Era

• School: University of Windsor
• Department: Women's and Gender Studies
• Course: WGST 2500
• Professor: Rita Hasse

Document Summary

Dualism: two different categories like men and women. Women are thought of as bodily creatures. Instructions, rules and models goal: women"s role is to give birth, to nurture and to care for children and the whole family. It cannot be a man"s role because of the dualism: patriarchal dualism creates clear differences. Women were not allowed to education themselves: women healers were burned and hung due to gaining too much knowledge. The church went forward in killing women just because they might be witches". Women were excluded from higher education and professions (medical & others: when the first university opened, women were denied access, this made women not as knowledgeable. In the mid-19th century the first women was allowed to go to university in britain. Women"s health knowledge was seen (by physicians) as unprofessional and ineffective (physicians used invasive and usually painful procedures) Physicians tried to establish themselves as the only legitimate practitioners of medicine.