KNES 344 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Nuclear Family, Compulsory Heterosexuality, Socialist Feminism
5 Mar 2016
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Social theories are: tools that help identify and explain problems in social life. Used to question, challenge, interrogate, or explore taken for grants aspects of social life. Social theories differ personal theories o o o. Help us make decisions in our own lives. Investigate and challenge traditional notions about sex, gender, and sexuality, historically and in contemporary times. Think critically about the and deconstruct male privilege/ normalization of patriarchy. Expose social inequalities (based on sex, gender, and sexuality) Interrogate social institutions and discourses that contribute to dominant gender ideology and heteronormativity. Explore how dominant ideas about sex, gender, and sexuality also impact boys and men. Consider personal experiences in relation to broader social condition (as related, in various ways, to sex, gender, and/or sexuality) Connected to first wave feminism but also originating category of feminist theory in academia. Theory present in writing of key feminist figures at the time (ex.
