Women's Studies 2260 Chapter Notes - Chapter Scott: Global Feminism, Strategic Family Therapy, Ender Wiggin

• School: Western University
• Department: Women's Studies
• Course: Women's Studies 2260
• Professor: Tugce Ellialti Kose

Document Summary

Battle between definition of gender : biological and socially constructed. Gender is different to people, environments, cultures. Gender might always refer to the ways in which relationships between men and women were conceived, but neither the relationships nor the men and women were taken to be the same in all instances. The point was to interrogate all the terms and so to historicize them. Gender as a way of referring to the social organization of the relationship between the sexes . Thesis: too often, gender connotes a programmatic or methodological approach in which the meanings of men and women are taken as fixed; the point is to describe differing roles, not to interrogate them. The focus ought to be not on the roles assigned to women and men, but on the construction of sexual difference itself. And the result is that women as a natural phenomenon is reinscribed, even as we assert that they are discursively constructed.