WGS200Y5 Study Guide - Simone De Beauvoir, The Second Sex, Toronto Police Service
15 Oct 2014
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Relatively equal in number, men and women. Differs in age: more women than men past 54 years. Differs in location: less equal in poorer regions. Bell hooks: we do not need to share common oppression to fight equally to the end oppression. Content: the particular historical moment, place and time. Agency: ability ti cease the moment and act evert action. Gender is social category imposed on the sexual body , joan w. scott (historian. One is not born a women, but rather become one . A complex phenomenon with multiple meanings it is: One of the guys: women as aggressor and torturers . When i was growing up, there wasn"t a word for domestic violence: it was just called life. Toronto police recruiting film in the 1950s. Women recruited were called the powder puff patrol . Here is a discrepancy in society on gender. Men would fell emasculated if women were as good or strong as women.
