POLS 2150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Femininity, Masculinity, Dominate

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLS 2150
• Professor: Carol Dauda

Document Summary

Western historical legacy of the exercising of gendered power within a social and. Gender identities , masculinity and femininity, and the hierarchy of power evident in those identities are produced within social and political relations of power. A system that is larger than ourselves. We all participate something we didn"t create but that we have the power to affect through the choices we make about how to participate. A system in which everything is connected. The most individual and personal relationships to the major social institutions. Privileges the masculine and downgrades the feminine. Masculine and feminine represent and express a hierarchy of values, attitudes, and behaviours Negative factors can be placed on a continuum from disrespect to gendered violence. Patriarchal norms: what is considered normal" has direct connection to gendered violence. We have a very poor understanding of how it works in our lives two fold point. Blame the individual-- tendency is number one, major tendency.