Introduction to Women's and Gender Studies Lecture

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Intro to Women’s and Gender
Studies

Who am I?
• The great-
granddaughter of
Nancy Rebecca
Logan Edgerton, born
in mountains of NC in
1877
• Not allowed to att...

Who am I?
• The granddaughter of
Hope Elizabeth
Edgerton Wills, born
in 1908.
• Sat in the back of
classes at UNC-
Chapel ...

Who am I?
• The daughter of
Nancy Leonora Wills
Hudock, born 1940.
• Was in the first class
of women admitted to
UNC-Chape...

Who am I?

Who am I?
• Amy Hudock, born
1964 in Chapel Hill,
NC
• Attended UNC-
Chapel Hill with no
question about my
gender in a cla...

Who am I?
• The mother of Sarah
Elizabeth Hudock
• A future scholar at
UNC-Chapel Hill
• My dream is that she
will face fe...

Who am I?
• A concerned
caregiver of an aging
mother
• A concerned mother
of a growing daughter
• Working for change
to ma...

What is this course?
• Look at class blog for:
– Syllabus
– Course Schedule
– Events
– Discussions
– Information

Feminism
Feminism is a philosophy that holds with this
ideal of equality. It is the belief that although
they are differen...

First Wave
• 19th
century abolition
movement gives rise
to thinking about
women’s equality
• Domestic ideology
empowers wo...

Second Wave
• In the middle to late
1960s, courses explaining
and developing feminist
theory began to be taught
on college...

Third Wave
• Emerged in the mid
1990’s
• Led by Gen Xers,
daughters of 2nd
Wave
• Questioned what 2nd
Wave had not yet
don...

Gender Studies
• Women’s and Gender
Studies programs have
been so successful as part
of an intellectual
movement that ther...

History of Ideas
• Study of Women
– Done by Men
– Views Women as
Objects
– Excluded women’s
opinions
– Saw women as
differ...

Psychological
• Study of Women
– Sigmund Freud
thought women
believed women were
vengeful, castrating,
penis-envying
creat...

Terminology
Terms to Learn
Sex Gender
Role Stereotype
Equality Patriarchy
Ideal Feminism
Positionality Misogyny
Ideology

Sex
• For our purposes, sex will be used to indicate the
biological categories within which people are
typically placed, o...

Gender
• Gender is the social significance of the
difference in sex. Gender, according to Professor
Lois Self, the Chair o...

Role
A role is the pattern of behaviors prescribed for
and expected from a person that corresponds to
their position in so...

Stereotype
A stereotype is a composite image of
characteristics and expectations pertaining to
some group. This image is p...

Equality
Equality is the condition of being alike in value,
having the same potential for accomplishment,
and having the s...

Patriarchy
Most of the societies that we know of have
tended to be patriarchal. They are based upon
an organizing principl...

Ideal
An ideal is a concept concerning a role, a
position, or a physical image that contains only
the most desirable trait...

Positionality
The concept of positionality recognizes that
people’s perspectives, their perceptions of reality,
and their ...

Misogyny and Ideology
Misogyny is the hatred of or hostility toward
women. In a society that subordinates women it is
easy...

Looking Ahead: A Few Key Ideas
from Shaw’s Chapter 1
• Different types of feminism
• Some of the myths about feminism
• Ro...

Analysis
Interview an older woman about what life
was like for women when she was young and
how things have changed, or no...

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