Women's Studies 2220E Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Grammar, Lorde, Audre Lorde
14 Dec 2016
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Ex. nurses referred to as female, doctors referred to as male most often, Ex. high pitch voice = female, low authoritative voice = male unconscious. Our language structure is very much embedded in a patriarchal structure even though women are doctors and men are nurses too. How do gender and race play a part in how we think about people in leadership positions. Cultural tropes of masculinity and femininity that get associated with maleness and femaleness way we frame gender. Themes/ideas that ran across all or most of the readings for this week: Embodied experience: a physical address of a personal experience, what you. Theory across diverse contexts ensure many are represented. Is not just academic represent in a variety of texts through oral histories. Turning to theory for healing hooks, archeluta, lorde, (matsuda) Embodied experience hooks experiences as a child. Elizabeth archeluta intergenerational aspect (not only experience of have personally gone through anti-essentialism.
