MDSA01H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Media Studies, Cultural Studies, Postfeminism
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Associations and meanings made between biology and culture exemplified by hair are at the heart of feminist analysis. Feminist scholars concentrate on how biological categories like male and female become conflated with cultural gender expectations, resulting in discriminatory social systems that privilege men over women. Feminism, like cultural studies, is also marked by a political commitment to deconstruct these oppressive systems in order to transform society into a fairer, more equitable place for diverse peoples. Feminism is a political project that explores the diverse ways men and women are socially empowered or disempowered. Sexism is a discrimination based upon a person"s sex. Instead of targeting individual men or even men as in a social group. Feminism seeks to reveal an eradicate socially ingrained systems of sexism that harm all individuals in some way. Sex refers to the innate, biological differentiation between men and women: anatomy, reproduction, hormones, etc.
