675 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Heterosexuality, Essentialism, Social Inequality
20 Jun 2018
School
Department
Course
Professor
Feminism
Gender and the Political
Important political and social category
Basis of differential power relations and inequalities
More than a source of individual identity
Distribution of an access to resources
The most fundamental category
Assumptions that differences between men and women are obvious
Gender difference and gender relations about more than biological differences
Social processes and power relationships
The political
No differences without domination
Biology and/or culture
Contribution to feminism
The significance of sex and gender
What do we mean by 'sex'
The body; mute biological body
What do we mean by 'gender'
Cultural socialisation
Masculinity and femininity as social classifications
Identity can be socially constructed
Can be politically structured
Nature vs. nurture debate
Biological determinism
What are the central beliefs of biological determinism
Biology is destiny
Private vs. Public spheres
Women is private, male is public
Domestic person in devalued
Gender and Inequality
What gender constitutes
Social and cultural differences attached to biology and the meanings that societies give them
to be important to take into account
Gender represents a social (and political) division that relates to differences in power,
opportunities and access to resources
Gender and social inequality intertwined
Feminism
Types:
1. Liberal; individual rights
2. Marxist: class is not the revolutionary thing
3. Radical:
4. Post structural feminism
5. Feminists of equality
6. Feminists of difference
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Document Summary
Basis of differential power relations and inequalities. More than a source of individual identity. Assumptions that differences between men and women are obvious. Gender difference and gender relations about more than biological differences. What are the central beliefs of biological determinism. Social and cultural differences attached to biology and the meanings that societies give them to be important to take into account. Gender represents a social (and political) division that relates to differences in power, opportunities and access to resources. All have different assumptions and reasons for explaining why women are oppressed by men. Orientations show what each type of feminism identifies as the problem(s) How explanations can be turned into prescriptions. Human capacity to be a reasoning being. Gender and class are both important variables for understanding women"s position in society. Claim women"s oppression the most fundamental form of oppression. Rejects other types of feminist claims as too totalising. There is n such things as women.
