REGNRSG 105 Lecture Notes - Nancy Chodorow, Postcolonialism, Ethnocentrism
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Masculinity body capital, instrumental, aggressive, powerful, breadwinner, strong. Contemporary social & political theory, open university press online. Always been an uncertain relationship between social theory and gender theory similar tensions with postcolonial theory: lack of grounding in any of the major sociological paradigms (outside of the holy. Social life is constructed upon social divisions gender theory should be at the core of sociological theory because we know gender shapes a lot of our social interactions and relationships. The enlightenment signals the importance of rationality women were perceived as non- rational actors age of science and reason, where scholars were starting to acknowledge the importance of being rational, but women seen as non-rational actors. Feminist and gender theorists argued that the enlightenment ideals prioritise masculine" qualities what we think of as value" is what we consider masculine appears as the default to measure everything against.
