SOC380H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Finding Dawn, 6 Years, Second-Wave Feminism
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Choose 3 out of the four for the final exam: 15 questions mc, definitions 4 terms, short answer 3 questions, essay question 1 question. Good preparation for the midterm: study questions from the sections (in the textbook) What do women share: oppression, low wage, understanding, assumption is biology childbirth, menstruation. There are exceptions (women with different chromosomes, etc. ) Gender essentialism: idea that men and women have inherent/unique attributes that qualify them as separate genders. Experiences are diverse, so is it really shared: men are rarely asked do you have children, are you planning on having children soon, etc. at job interviews, while women are commonly asked this. Relationship status (married, single, common law, divorced, widowed) Barriers inhibiting certain individuals/groups from partaking in certain aspects of society. This is done by a dominant group on the subordinate group. Social arrangements in which the subordinate group is exploited and the dominant group is granted unearthed privilege.
