AAAD 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Individualism, Intersectionality, Tabula Rasa
17 Dec 2016
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Week 1 gender and sexuality as topics of study: an introduction (aug. 25) Argues against the myth of a post-gender world. Unpacks what it is to be a feminist. Feminism: complex topic equality among the genders, politically, socially, and economically. Gender prescribes how we should be rather than recognizes who we are idea of a happy african feminist unheard of. We as humans have evolved, but our idea of gender has not. Adichie"s definition of feminism: social, political, and economic equality of the sexes reality have to push women"s rights forward to make this^ a. Men are raised to be aggressive, women are not. Week 2 cross-cultural study of gender and sexuality (aug. 30) Western feminists generalize the qualities and complexities of women"s issues within other regions of the world. Choosing strategic locations and situations to back up a western view of women in africa and other parts of the world.
