Women's Studies 2260 Chapter Notes - Chapter Dietz: Difference Feminism, Gender Binary, Dualism

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

Document Summary

Gender is relational, and the concept of sex is meaningless except when understood in the context of gender relations. Feminists today often disagree whether gender is binary or fluid. Emphasize women"s universal oppression as unique means of access to ways of knowing in the world or speaking/being within the patriarchal system. Questions the primacy of sexual or gender difference and its elision of other collective forms of difference and identity. Rejects differences in gender, concept of woman. Difference fem: gender as a social reality task of feminism is to revalue female experience. Traditional gender roles = oppression (lib fem) Despite the divergences between biological accounts on the one hand and psychological, social, or cultural explanations of women"s commonalities on the other, social difference feminists do share three theoretical strategies worth noting. Consciousness but also excluding axes of domination and oppression other than gender.