Discursive shaping Flashcards
What do social geographers aruge?
That social identities and differences are constructed around bodily differences, such as sex, gender, age and ability
What is mind/body dualism?
Where the mind was seen as a different entity to the body
Who introduced the mind-body dualism?
Descartes 17th century dualistic concept
What was Descartes concept?
Where matter was spatially extended and mind thought for itself
What did Descartes argue?
That the mind exists in as the organising principle in a particular parcel of matter
What did Descartes see bodies as?
Machines directed by the soul until the mind gets involved
What are the two distinctions?
Gendered distinction
Epistemological distinction
What was the body seen as in gendered distinction?
Negative- seen as emotional, feminine and irrational simply due to perceived conceptions
In GD, women were seen as…
victims of the motions. Where they could not control their body (childbirth, pregnancy, menstruation)
What was the mind seen as in GD?
Positive- masculine, rational and conscious. Men were seen as people whose mind could control their bodies
What is epistemology about?
It is about the construction of knowledge
In ED women cannot… and are…
Cannot separate their bodies from their minds are are inferior in relation to knowledge production
