WGS250H5 Lecture Notes - Merriam-Webster, Simone De Beauvoir, Medical Dictionary
4 Feb 2014
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A multidisciplinary approach towards equality, based on social and performative constructions of gender and sexuality politics that create power imbalance: a movement to achieve social and political change upon a basis of sex equality in all human relations. If we don"t fight for all rights how can we fight for women rights before women of other races were not included. Social constuction: a continuing process where individuals learn and internalize values, knowledge, language, habits, customs and social skills to conform to society, epistemology: theories of knowledge and knowledge production. Lecture 1: ability is a big one: you know what you know based on your ability you know what you know based on your location your age brings you access to knowledge gender is a big component. Socially produced distinction between biological sex and gender, women and men are produced through complex system of cultural, social, physical, and historical difference (fuss, xii)
