Women's Studies 1022F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Genderqueer, Heteronormativity, Eurocentrism

• School: Western University
• Department: Women's Studies
• Course: Women's Studies 1022F/G
• Professor: Bipasha Baruah

Document Summary

To appreciate the difference between international relations and feminist international relations. To understand the nuance and complexity of power relationships. Gender is always raced, classed, sexualized and nationalized, just as race, class, sexuality and nationality are always gendered. Nobody is ever just a woman or just a man. Gender does not exist in a vacuum wherein it is not affected by other societal labels. To appreciate how the power of gender operates pervasively to produce and sustain unequal power relations. To understand how we are (often unwillingly and unknowingly) complicit in the makings of global inequalities and injustices. The personal is political and the personal is also international/global . We cannot separate our personal lives from our political lives. To understand how our personal decisions are also international and global decisions. Gender is the role you play in society and is sometimes nonbinary. Sex is your biological form and is less often nonbinary.