Women's Studies
Unit 4: Systems of Privilege and Inequity in Women's Lives
Textbook Readings:
Read Chapter 2, pages 42-59
Emphasize that what it means to be a woman is a complex interaction of multiple identities.
We tend to think of women in comparison to a mythical norm: white, middle-class, heterosexual, abled, this, and a young adult, which is racialized and men are gendered.
The meanings associated with differences are socially constructed.
The hierarchical ranking of difference is constructed through social processes such that patterns of difference become systems of privilege and inequality.
Reading #9, "Toward a New Vision," pages 76-84
Reading #10, “Oppression,” pages 84-86
Reading #13, “White Privilege and Male Privilege,” pages 91-98
Unit 5: Learning Gender in a Diverse Society
Textbook Readings:
Read Chapter 3, pages 105 -120 in the textbook.
Reading #20, "Social Construction of Gender,” pages 126-129
Reading #21 “Unraveling Hardwiring”, 129-133
Unit 6: Sex, Power, and Intimacy
Textbook Readings:
Chapter 4, pages 164-182
Notes:
Erotic: more holistic concept that takes into account the range of feelings and behaviors associated with any notion of sexuality.
Sexual scripts: guidelines for how we are supposed to feel and act as sexual persons.
Shaped by the communities and societies in which we participate and therefore are socially constructed (they emerge from communities and societies).
Sexual self-schemas: subjective understanding, as ideas and beliefs about sexual aspect of the self that are established from past and present experiences and which act to guide feelings and behavior.
Sexual identity: one aspect of sexual self-schemas that can be defined as a person’s attraction to, or preference for, people of a certain gender.
Heterosexuality: sexual identity where romantic and/or sexual attachments are between people of the opposite gender (popularly termed straight).
Homosexuality: sexual identity where
Textbook Readings:
Read Chapter 2, pages 42-59
Emphasize that what it means to be a woman is a complex interaction of multiple identities.
We tend to think of women in comparison to a mythical norm: white, middle-class, heterosexual, abled, this, and a young adult, which is racialized and men are gendered.
The meanings associated with differences are socially constructed.
The hierarchical ranking of difference is constructed through social processes such that patterns of difference become systems of privilege and inequality.
Reading #9, "Toward a New Vision," pages 76-84
Reading #10, “Oppression,” pages 84-86
Reading #13, “White Privilege and Male Privilege,” pages 91-98
Unit 5: Learning Gender in a Diverse Society
Textbook Readings:
Read Chapter 3, pages 105 -120 in the textbook.
Reading #20, "Social Construction of Gender,” pages 126-129
Reading #21 “Unraveling Hardwiring”, 129-133
Unit 6: Sex, Power, and Intimacy
Textbook Readings:
Chapter 4, pages 164-182
Notes:
Erotic: more holistic concept that takes into account the range of feelings and behaviors associated with any notion of sexuality.
Sexual scripts: guidelines for how we are supposed to feel and act as sexual persons.
Shaped by the communities and societies in which we participate and therefore are socially constructed (they emerge from communities and societies).
Sexual self-schemas: subjective understanding, as ideas and beliefs about sexual aspect of the self that are established from past and present experiences and which act to guide feelings and behavior.
Sexual identity: one aspect of sexual self-schemas that can be defined as a person’s attraction to, or preference for, people of a certain gender.
Heterosexuality: sexual identity where romantic and/or sexual attachments are between people of the opposite gender (popularly termed straight).
Homosexuality: sexual identity where