Sex and gender
Questions
1.When, why and how did patriarchal relations of power between men and women emerge in human history?
2.What is the difference between sex and gender? According to West and Zimmerman, why is “doing gender” unavoidable?
3.Why does Goldman suggest that marriage is a vehicle for subjugating women? How does monogamy perpetuate the subjugation of women?
4.Why are equal rights like universal suffrage insufficient solutions to gender oppression? According to Goldman, what would it take to achieve a fully feminist liberation?
5.Why are Liberal solutions to queer oppression – gay marriage, don’t ask don’t tell, and hate crime laws – insufficient and even counterproductive in achieving true queer liberation?
Why does Goldman suggest that marriage is a vehicle for subjugating women? How does monogamy perpetuate the subjugation of women?
