WSTA01H3 Study Guide - Final Guide: Androcentrism, Rape Culture, The White Ribbon

• School: UTSC
• Department: Women's and Gender Studies
• Course: WSTA01H3
• Professor: Anissa Talahite- Moodley

Document Summary

Gender equity and human rights: how institutions such as schools and the workplace contribute to perpetuating gender inequalities (e. g. the hidden curriculum, teachers" perceptions and expectations, gender inequalities at works such as the gender gap, glass ceiling, precarious employment), some of the factors intersecting with gender to create inequalities (e. g. race, class, sexuality, religions, disability, and age), the root causes of gender violence, preventing gender violence. Lecture: why is media important in the production of gender, the media as an ideological instrument, portraying masculinity, portraying femininity, how is this done, non representation, stereotyping, consequences: hegemonic masculinity/ emphasized femininity (connell, example: advertising (killing us softly, do media representations change, changing masculinity, changing femininity. Lecture: gendered language, the othering process (sdb, challenging hegemonic patriarchal discourse and representation, women and literature, women and cinema, women and art. Lecture: gender and education, the hidden curriculum, intersectional factors, underperforming boys , gender and employment, gendered employment, key processes, intersectional factors.