SDS131R Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Radical Feminism, Ethnocentrism, White Supremacy
11 Mar 2016
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Human nature = androgynous (not specific to one"s sex) Origin of the state = male domination of women. Role of the state = fulfillment, only possible through gender inclusiveness. Equality = ideal, gender neutral, linked to most or all forms of equality. Relationships to others = mix of communitarianism and individualism. Sex = what one is biologically born with chromosomal sex, hormonal sex, and/or reproductive sex organs intersex. To do gender" = symbolic interactionism, learned and reproduced through interactions with each other, performance . Ex; women = cross their legs, chickening out . Bell hooks: feminism constitutes a social, economic, and political commitment to eradicating race, class, and sexual domination . Adrienne rich feminism is an ethics, methodology, a more complex way of thinking about and acting upon the conditions of our lives . Media has hold up that feminist is only centralized around women but is not true, only looking for equality, negative stereotype.
