WGS160Y1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Biopower, Middle Ages, Michel Foucault
25 Jan 2016
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Introducing women"s studies: gender in a transnational world. One emphasis was missing or marginalized in women"s studies courses since the 1990"s : an international perspective on women"s lives and concerns. Until recently there have only been two ways of addressing international issues in the women"s studies classroom. The first method, popular since the 1970s was to point to similarities among women around the world and across time periods. This common world of women approach focused on topics such as motherhood and family structure. This approach seemed to propose a world of people with prejudices of skin colour or national biases but did not recognize that women are divided by class, race, nationality, sexuality, and other signs of power. The second approach was a more hierarchical one that viewed. Western culture as modern and other cultures as hoping or needing to catch up to the west in western terms.
