RR #3 - Gender is intersectional: Thinking Theoretically about the gender system BACA ZINN Introduction (p. 1 - 8): This article offers an overview of how to think about sex and gender through the prism of difference. This article traces some of the history of thinking and studying gender. 1. In 1960s and early 1970s what did scholars focus on? 2. What do the author's mean when they say the 1970s approach to gender essentialized women and men? 3. Why did some women begin challenging this essentialist view? What brought them to this critique? 4. What themes were developed within the scholarship on masculinity? 5. What is an example of how gender is linked with global factories? In other words how is the success of large multinational corporations related to gender, class inequality? 6. What does it mean to say scholars examine gender from an intersectional perspective? Think about how race, class, gender intersect and how lives are not just gendered, or raced. Bell Hooks excerpt 1. What does bell hooks say feminism is? Does she say men are the enemy? Who can be sexist and an oppressor? 2. What does she say about men and patriarchy? 3. What kind of society does she desoch yhere no domination exists? Gmail RR #3 - Gender is intersectional: Thinking Theoretically about the gender system BACA ZINN Introduction (p. 1 - 8): This article offers an overview of how to think about sex and gender through the prism of difference. This article traces some of the history of thinking and studying gender. 1. In 1960s and early 1970s what did scholars focus on? 2. What do the author's mean when they say the 1970s approach to gender essentialized women and men? 3. Why did some women begin challenging this essentialist view? What brought them to this critique? 4. What themes were developed within the scholarship on masculinity? 5. What is an example of how gender is linked with global factories? In other words how is the success of large multinational corporations related to gender, class inequality? 6. What does it mean to say scholars examine gender from an intersectional perspective? Think about how race, class, gender intersect and how lives are not just gendered, or raced. Bell Hooks excerpt 1. What does bell hooks say feminism is? Does she say men are the enemy? Who can be sexist and an oppressor? 2. What does she say about men and patriarchy? 3. What kind of society does she desoch yhere no domination exists? Gmail