WOMENST 1A03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Carole Pateman, Bell Hooks
13 Apr 2015
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Women: people in bodies that are sexed as female. Gender: the cultural meaning of living in a sexed body, usually defined as male or female. =one major factor in how most societies distribute power (bell hooks; gender domination is not the root of all exploitation and crisis. It is, however, the form of domination we are most likely to encounter in our daily lives ) The home is where we learn to be gendered personal biographical experiences teach us a great deal about what sex and gender means has broad public ramifications. Not all women have the same experiences (bell books; calls attention to the intersection of sex, race, and class in determining experiences of woman , problematizes notion of common oppression of women) Not all women are positioned equally in (global) hierarchies (bell hooks; women are part of the paradigm of domination in multiple ways) Hooks finds small group settings important for cultivation feminist thought and practice.
