WST 3930 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Extreme Poverty, Sharecropping, Combahee River
9 Oct 2016
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Leading thinkers: thomas hobbes and john locke. A belief in natural rights led to a belief that there is no natural basis for hierarchy. Everyone, by virtue of being human, has human rights. Before enlightenment era, people were born into a social strata determined by what your parents did before you were born and god. Your future is not determined by birthright. Natives struggled to defend their livelihood against encroaching europeans. The american economy rested on the exploitative labor of enslaved africans. Women, as property of men, were denied property and political rights, and faced severe consequences for challenging the status quo. Massacre of natives, appropriation of their land. Enslavement of african people and their children. The subjugation of women was rationalized by science, when. The galenic one-sex model sees inversions of the same thing. Galen (the father of western medicine) thought that fundamentally women and men"s bodies are very similar.
