POLSCI 3CC3 Study Guide - Learned Helplessness, Counterpoint, Erectile Dysfunction
10 Sep 2014
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The topic divides the class that no other has before; women v. men. Womenism; rational, hysterical and trapped in the home. Idea of women as a rational other: why you need binders to find capable women. Like foucault, she focuses on the power relations in the home. It turns out that femininity is similar to madness; almost a form of insanity because it is constructive, projected, and it is manipulated, it is a practice. All of this becomes part of constructing a system of truth; gender has regimes of truth. Q: sometimes when it doesn"t fit with our cognitive framework, we stop thinking about it; romney had to have a binder with qualified women in it. He said it because it was endemic in the society he was in; it made sense for these people; because capable qualified women is exotic; a little unusual hilary clinton.
