Women's Studies 1020E Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Breast Reduction, Class Discrimination, Jared Kushner

• School: Western University
• Department: Women's Studies
• Course: Women's Studies 1020E
• Professor: Laura Cayen

Document Summary

* using course readings (at least two) answer question. * examines the role(s) that gender plays in how we live in the world. * questions gender as the foundation for social organization. * seeks to understand (and ultimately dismantle) patriarchy example: designated bathrooms (male bodies and female bodies going into different rooms), sport teams (competitions for men and for woman), , advertisement chick. * a hierarchical system of social organization that is rooted in essentialized ideas about gender. * hierarchy: built upon assumptions of superiority and inferiority (one person or group at the top, others necessarily below) * patriarchy underscores and in uences the social systems that organize our lives. Patriarchy says men are at the top of the social hierarchy. * harmful for both women and men- very few people bene t from patriarchy and they do so at the expense of everyone else. * a social system in which we all participate.