Women's Studies 2250E- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 53 pages long!)

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What is considered normal: consider the idea that (cid:494)normal(cid:495) is a product of language, performance, and representation and that (cid:494)naturally-occurring(cid:495) differences are often anything but. In other words, the normal/abnormal dichotomy is a culturally-produced fiction: but what does this mean, the freak show does not represent a naturally occurring/existing difference but invents it (cid:498)normal(cid:499) derivative from norma, right angle/perpendicular, circa (cid:857)(cid:863)(cid:856)(cid:856). Then to a form regarded as the norm/conforming to common standards circa 1840s, and as a noun/sense of person or thing by 1890s. Eugenics (cid:498)well born(cid:499: aiming to control reproduction to breed better, stronger, fitter race of people (cid:498)positive(cid:499) vs (cid:498)negative(cid:499) methods. They are people with the mental capacities and abilities of children. In the cities they tend to drift towards the slums. Indeed the slums are largely the product of the segregating of the subnormals. (cid:499) - dr. william hutton, president of the. Eugenic society of canada, 1934 (cid:498)toronto is roused at last!