PHIL 2125 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Performativity, Domestic Violence, Atlantic Slave Trade
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Guillaumin race is also a noun and a verb. Invent categories of humans in order to rationalize inhumane treatment as a source of profit. Justification for invention of sex: women are nurturing, childbearing, domestic roles, sex/rape where knowledge is created (experts), and discourse is produced via knowledge. Religious context for distinction of sex: adam and eve. Discursive theory (foucault): power is concentrated in institutions (i. e. the state, schools, family) Only particular experts produced knowledge during the enlightenment period. Contextual factors: religion, wealth, race, mental health/illness. Mental illness is both constructed and essential. Media deems all contextual factors as essential. Most mass shooters in america are male and have a history of domestic abuse. In the case of disability handicapped persons are attempting to fit in a world that was not made for them. If institutions accurately reflect demographics, then the shape of the whole may change to allow everyone to fit .
