FEM 2110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Radical Feminism, Mythili, Mumblecore

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Women's Studies
• Course: FEM 2110
• Professor: Mythili Rajiva

Document Summary

Marginalization : where you fit ie mythili is a brown woman, therefore she experiences racism/sexism, however she is a straight, upper-middle class cis-gendered person so she doesn"t experience other discrimination. Relations of power are made and remade within texts of enjoyment . 90"s: media saying feminists have won and its dead, not needed anymore. however, Trump era is regenerating anger and realization that there is still injustices and discrimination. The f word: media has created a bad image for feminism, but to date, there is a. Second wave feminism is stuck in a toxic wave of blaming the mother/daughter. Ludi"s position reaffirms the privilege of middle-class, straight white women. Mumblecore genre= the strong put together career woman somehow falls in love with the gross dorky loser rather than someone in her league. 2. transformation is inevitable but look for it in the margins, not the everyday.