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Date Recorded
1985-03-29
Date Digitized
2024
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Physical Location
Original cassette held by UPEI Archives and Special Collections
Duration
01:04:05
Model
1 1 Item in Collection
Transcript
00:00 Introduction from Pratt

01:00 Percival begins speaking

02:00 Discussion of right-handedness; relation to male/female dominance in society

04:30 Discussion of feminist perspectives on difficulties in society for women

05:30 Outline of Percival's talk

06:30 Discussion of terminology related to women's studies

08:00 Discussion of women in academia

10:30 Discussion of second-wave feminism in relation to women entering into academia

12:00 Quote from Jameson regarding women in academia

13:00 Discussion of historical works on women's work in Canada

15:00 Discussion of women in economics

16:00 Discussion of women's health issues

16:30 Discussion of psychology in relation to women

18:00 Discussion of perspectives on women from prominent religious figures

19:30 Discussion of functionalism and Darwinism in relation to women

21:00 Discussion of the neuroanatomy of women

22:00 Discussion of Mary Wollstoncraft, John Stuart Mills, Freud on women's education

23:30 Discussion of G. Stanley Hall on women

24:30 Discussion of the role of social myth in the psychology of women

25:30 Discussion of the study of sex differences

26:00 Discussion of Helen T. Woolley

26:30 Discussion of quantitative findings on sex differences

27:30 Discussion of linguistic skills between men and women; discussion of skills women ostensibly excel at

29:00 Discussion of a study conducted in 1969 regarding sex differences

32:00 Discussion of representations of sex differences in textbooks

33:00 Discussion of men theorising on women

34:30 Discussion of the need to study women from women's perspectives

36:00 Discussion of a book titled "Men's Studies Modified"

39:00 Discussion of reflexivity in disciplines on the place of women

41:00 Discussion of the ostensible suggestibility of women

42:00 Discussion of poor reporting of sex differences

45:00 Discussion of field dependence based on gender

46:00 Discussion of victim-blaming

47:30 Discussion of the notion that women fear success

50:00 Discussion of moral development

52:00 Quote regarding women and the moral development theory of Coburg

54:30 Discussion of Otto Rank

55:30 Discussion of the goals of women's studies

59:30 End of Percival's lecture

01:00:00 Beginning of question period; question regarding the ultimate aim of women's studies

01:01:30 Question regarding the role of men in women's studies

01:02:30 Question regarding male students in women's studies courses

01:03:30 End of seminar