SOSA 2502 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Labour Power, Radical Change, Biopolitics
13 Sep 2016
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Underlying theme: society is organized in a patriarchal way run by men, male-dominated way, that privileges men, and that takes male and maleness as the standard (female only occurred with something that was female-specific) Other forms of oppression, besides sex/gender disability, race, age, class, sexual orientation; how oppressions intersect (intersectional analysis) Health in feminism began in late 1960s, with late women"s movement. Close association with health and illness birth control and abortion, reproductive health, sexual violence, general sexuality, overall control over their bodies. Natural/inevitable cannot challenge this biology is destiny . Women have equal ability to reason as men. Men and women have same sorts of minds. Have same ability to reason, women should have same rights as men. Focus on work, law, education areas where the mind (reason, not so much the body) is really important. Proceeded as if women can be all the same things as men.
