WGST 1808 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Classical Liberalism, Wage Labour, Industrial Revolution

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Women's and Gender Studies
• Course: WGST 1808
• Professor: Katherine Bausch

Document Summary

Biological determinism: beliefs that characteristics are innate, unchanging, and universal because they are determined by our biology or by nature. Science has often gone looking prove that which society already knows. Phrenology (gould) - popular science in the 19th century that correlated skull measurements with characteristics. Women were seen to have smaller brain therefore they were seen as not as smart. Shows that in earlier century they used bad science to back prejudice. Cesar lombroso (1878) - the criminal mind. Gustave lebon (1895) - civilized minds and behaviour. Phrenology discredited by rst quarter of the 20th century due to rise of genetics. Does not mean the end of science"s attempt to correlate biological certainties sex, and gender. Example: science to determine why girls are bad at math. There can be many objects of sexual desire. There are many ways to express sexual desire. There are stages of sexual development that should lead to heterosexual pairing.