WOMENST 1A03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Biomedical Sciences, Body Man, Oudshoorn
13 Apr 2015
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Feminist terminology since the 1980"s; wants to be taken seriously. Sounds like social science instead of strident activism. Women"s studies departments in the 1970s and 1980s became gender studies departments in the 1990s and beyond . Draws attention to the inability of considering women separately from men. The category woman exists because there is also a category man and the two are in relationship with one another. The social construction of the category woman implies the social construction of the category. Neither biological sex nor gendered social roles exist in a bubble; the cultural meanings of our bodies exists as part of a discourse of sex, gender, and power in our society. 2nd: coincides with vietnam war and civil rights. Big protest movements where minorities were demanding rights, and where women were demanding that the personal barriers that they saw in their private life be seen as bigger personal problems. Feminism of coincidence groups, the feminine mystique, bra-barring)
