WGS101H5 Study Guide - Final Guide: Nanny, Transnationalism, Age Of Enlightenment
14 Dec 2017
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Sex and gender as socially constructed: sex and gender as socially constructed. Social constructions are produced from history through social, political and economic structures. An intersectionality perspective would say these social constructions of having to identify with one side are inaccurate to society and that we need to look at in a more understanding way. As intersectional thinkers/feminists, we must not make these assumptions, and also learn to develop a more open minded way of thinking that does not rely on traditional binary ways of thinking: transnational feminism. Transnational means that issues/people/goods/finances/ideas cross national borders and, therefore, demand a global understanding (bromley, 2012). Transnational feminisms reject linear views of history and unidirectional flows of culture, knowledge, and social change, as well as the hierarchies of north/south (bromley 2012). In other words, the world has become interconnected due to technology and travel (lecture, 2016). Because of this interconnectedness, issues become worldwide issues and they demand worldwide attention.
