SOCL 1101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Liberal Feminism, Sigmund Freud, Eating Disorder
6 Nov 2017
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Mars and venus: feminism is an intellectual, consciousness-raising movement based on the idea that women and men should be accorded equal opportunities and respect. It is common to think that there are only two sexes male and female and that all people fall into one group or the other, and indeed this is a way of imposing order in a chaotic world. This notion endured until the mid-eighteenth century: essentialism is a line of thought that explains social phenomena in terms of natural ones, Social world made of human bodies and biological world of sex and bodies does not exist outside of a social world. However, there is much evidence showing that gender roles have more to do with social status than biology: scripts for behavior - gender, ge(cid:374)de(cid:396) is(cid:374)"t (cid:374)atu(cid:396)al like se(cid:454). Esta(cid:271)lishes patte(cid:396)(cid:374)s of e(cid:454)pe(cid:272)tatio(cid:374)s fo(cid:396) ppl: fundamental building blocks of society, navajo tribes of native americans: 3 tribes.
