MDSA01H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Stereotype, Betty Friedan, Postfeminism
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The associations and meanings made between biology and culture exemplified by hair are at the heart of feminist analysis. Feminism is a political project that explores the diverse ways men and women are socially empowered or disempowered. Feminism is a movement to end sexism, sexist exploitation, and oppression. Feminism is a political project focused on deconstructing sexist oppression present in our everyday norms and experiences. The belief that gender distinctions are innate and natural is called essentialism. Factors that contribute to the creation of a sexist social system. Social systems cannot happen without people, just as monopoly cannot play itself, but we enact social systems and board games according to rules determined before we as individuals joined: confusion between sex and gender. Sex is the innate, biological difference between men and women (reproduction, hormone production, etc). Gender is the culturally constructed differences between men and women (tastes, roles, activities, etc. ).
