SOCY 122 Chapter : Feminist Sociology

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Social Sci, Edu and Soc Work - Sociology
• Course: SOCY 122
• Professor: Rob Beamish

Document Summary

1970: trying to change the system from within, graduation lead to boring white collar jobs. Popular culture also had an impact on the protest for social change. Most men and women protested for everyone"s rights as citizens: mostly trying to change the law or create a new culture of values. Moving and powerful for women: represented subordination across cultures and throughout history. Man was always positive: man was used to designates human in general. Women were always negative: defined by limiting criteria, without reciprocity, was not socially constructed, only seen as the mans other. Civilization as a whole produced these notions. Gender identities are socially constructed: they are not eternal, not unchanging. Males and females are not binary opposites. Two sexes is not enough for all of human sexuality: sex can be defined in at least 5 categories, malleable (easily influenced, able to be shaped, boundaries between masculine and feminine are harder to define.