Sociology 2240E Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Patricia Hill Collins, Judith Butler, Concrete Category

• School: Western University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: Sociology 2240E
• Professor: Amanda Zavitz

Document Summary

Continuation of last week"s lecture that was on march 1st, 2017. Patricia hill collins: standpoint epistemology - also discusses this- means same thing - we tend to understand the world through a patriarchal lens - arguing that feminist needs to put forward a standpoint epistemology and be forthright. Judith butler: post-modern feminist, what do you mean by women, women isn"t a concrete category- gender sex, and sexual orientation are socially created, movement beyond a binary - something that is always understanding in opposition to something else.