Chris Barker - Cultural Studies Theory and Practice.

Power pervades every social relationship; the glue that holds the social together and a coercive force which subordinates one set of people to another; processes that generate and enable any form of social action, relationship or order.  Power constrains and enables.  p10

Foucault: the regulated production of knowledge through language which gives meaning to material objects and social practices.  Discourse regulates what can be said under determinate social and cultural conditions but also who can speak, when and where.  Foucault conceives of the subject as radically historicised i.e. persons are wholly and only the product of history.  p10

Values:  p294

Men

Naturally domineering
Heirarchically oriented
Power hungry
Spatial, maths and motor skills

Women

Nurturing
Childrearing
Domestic
Verbal, co-operative
Organised.

Men less able to work in right and left brain concurrently.  Men have left brain, task focus preference, which correlates with less integration and cross referencing which is what right brain does.   Women are more able to multi-task across both sides of the brain.  Women connect the emotional and reasoning aspect of the mind.

Carol Gilligan says Men operate with an Ethics of Justice (using abstract thinking), whereas women operate with an Ethics of Care (context specific arguments).

Western cultural norms validated men's understanding of morality and ethics at the expense of women's which has been cast as deficient.