WOMENST 1A03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Biomedical Sciences, Womanism, Intersectionality
26 Jan 2016
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Women, culture, power - jan 13/16 - cultural construction of gender (& Feminist terminology since the 1980s; wants to be taken seriously. Sounds like social science instead of strident activism. Women"s studies departments became known as gender"s studies. Draws attention to the inability of considering women separately from men: the categories of men and women are interconnected, the social construction of the category of woman implies the social construction of the category man Neither biological sex nor gendered social roles exist on their own. The cultural meanings of our bodies exist as part of a discourse of sex, gender and power in our society. Step away from biology as the root of all things feminine; acknowledge that habit and tradition take a part in creating what we see as "masculine" or. Biomedical science has always taken part (and taken sides) in debates about women"s rights and abilities. Women are merely an inferior version of the standard-issue male body.
