AUSOC 275 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Stereotype Threat, Evolutionary Psychology, Eugenics

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Augustana Faculty - Sociology
• Course: AUSOC 275
• Professor: Kierstin Hatt

Document Summary

Biological differences are main themes in our explanations of gender difference and gender inequality. Standard story says the differences in 2 opposite sexes cause the differences in the 2 opposite sexes (male/female) Believed god has created men and women for separate purposes and the biological differences were decisive of this. Argued that women were not meant to be excluded from equality (to vote, to enter employment, and to enter colleges) but rather, they were being exempted from things that their fragile bodies could not handle. Believed the female body was inferior to the man"s. Believed that women would always (until the end of time) be as inferior as a negro man. Women"s role in the world was only to populate with the right sort of people . White people in general: white boys for superiority and white girls to continue the right population. Eugenics united feminists with social conservatives and progressives in the pursuit of biological improvement.