GWS 150 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Heterosexuality, Cisgender, Transphobia

• School: URI
• Department: Gender and Women's Studies
• Course: GWS 150
• Professor: Alana Bibeau

Document Summary

Dominant expectations - about rationality, subjectivity, narrative style or. Essay oppression regularly included across the gws curriculum because frye delineation of systemic double-blinds . Focus on how gender is interwoven with race, class, and sexuality she slips away from developing the multifaceted analyses she sets out to undertake. Whatever assaults and harassments a man is subjected to, being male is not what selects him for victimization; men are not oppressed as a men . Women"s dependency is derogated obscures how different forms of gendered dependency aredifferetly. Calls for analytic methods, modes of political action and ways of thinking about person, rights and liberation informed by multiplicity. Adds nuance to understanding different sites of feminism and the multiple dimensions of lived experience it lends insight into the interrelationships among struggle for liberations. Offers a vision of future possibilities that can be more fully realized once a shift towards the multiple takes place. Considering lived experience as a criterion of meaning.