WGS160Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Transnational Feminism, Menstruation, Scientific Racism
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All feminisms have power relations and social change. All people have different issues, but we must have solidarity. International alliances (social media facilitates spread of ideas) Male and females were not conceptualized as different bodies until in the nineteenth century, scientists started looking at different bodies/skeletons/organs and this became a way to identify males and better than females. Scientists kept looking at why women are different. Essentialist views claim there is an inherent characteristic about a group or type of person. Biological determinist views tells us that biology determines behaviour. White black and asian were the three main races.
