FEM 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Performativity, Sexual Orientation, Intersectionality
23 Feb 2015
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Women"s studies is rooted in the student, civil rights and women"s movements of the 1960"s and. Intersectionality: examines how categories of identity (race, class, age, gender, etc) and structures of inequality are mutually constituted and must continually be understood in relationship to one another. Transnationalism: focuses on cultures, structures and relationships that are formed as a result of the flows of people and resources across geopolitical borders. Us women got the vote in 1920 (one of the focuses of first wave feminism) For canada, it was 1918 nation-wide (although this didn"t include indigenous women, who couldn"t vote until 1960) 1968 miss america pageant: took place in atlantic city, a myth-making event. It was reported that bras were burned (but this didn"t actually happen) Sex: physiological differences that differentiate male and female humans. Based on reproductive physiology: primary sex characteristics, genetic sex or chromosomes (xx or xy, gonads (ovaries / testes, secondary sex characteristics.
