Women's Studies 1022F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Heteronormativity, Intersectionality, Essentialism

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

Document Summary

Objectives of course: to appreciate the difference between international relations and feminist international relations: how the world relates to one another from a feminist perspective, to understand the nuance and complexity of power relationships, to understand intersectionality. West is the norm and therefore everyone else must conform: 1st/2nd/3rd world: if you shouldn"t call it the third world, what should you call it? . At the end of the second world war, the top power was the us and western europe, this meant that these were the countries that were signed to free market economies. Simplicity put, they put elections to assign leaders and created the free market economies. Many of the countries that became known as third world countries are asian and african countries, third world meaning, third way. Often what is considered a significant political event is completely gendered and racialized. (i. e. the disappearance of aboriginal women)