Scott, Joan W. "Gender: A Term Paper

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Theories based in patriarchy (and also psychoanalysis) tend to reinforce the male/female separate spheres divide even while they seek to undo it, and women's oppression predates industrialism and class.

Scott's analysis is especially useful at the end of her essay, when she calls for understanding power not as a male vs. female war, but what she calls a diffuse and Foucault-like manner that sees gender as woven to a fabric of social relationships (1067). Scott clarifies how gender is culturally symbolic as well as involves normative symbols for the individual, as well highlights gender's function in social institutions and organizations and in specific historical contexts.


On one hand, Scott seems to ask a great deal of the word gender, but by doing so her essay performs a useful function, not simply for scholars, but for everyone who is a participant in our own society's web of meanings, for she highlights the pervasiveness of gender assumptions in daily life, their mutability, and….....

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