POLS1301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Bell Hooks, Civil Disobedience, Heteronormativity
13 May 2018
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Feminist Political Theory
1. What is feminism
- Hard to defie eause it’s a od of thought respodig to that urret prole
(contextual definition)
- Oxford Dictionary: Advocacy of equality of the sexes and the establishment of
the political, social and eooi rights…
- Bell Hooks: Is the struggle to end sexist oppression, aims not to benefit any
specific group of women and does not privilege women over men.
2. The first Wave: Earl 9’s
- Movement for equality
- Main goal to have the right to vote
- Suffragettes
- Civil disobedience: radical and violent methods
- Temperance: curb the consumption of alcohol
- Problematize the consumption of alcohol as an intoxicated head of house was
pretty shit for the wife and kids
- Freedom: She did’t like arriage eause it as’t freeing like love (wanted to
hoe??)
3. The second wave: Post War
- The sex/gender distinction
- Cotested iologial deteriis: a perso’s geder ditatig their ailities
- So, the akoledge that e’re iologiall differet ut still thik e a do
the same things?? Pls explain
- Gender is apparently socially constructed and not natural. Umm, what?
- Gender socialisation: Women are taught to be passive, subordinate, etc. by
soiet. It’s diffiult to ulear
- Catherine Mackinnon: Heterosexuality is the epitome of male dominance and
feale suissio (this ith has soe raz ies that feiists do’t ee
agree with)
- The personal is political
- Oppression is not only found in state institutions but also in personal life
- Politicising the personal sphere
- Patriarchy
- A system of male dominance and female submission
- Woe’s elusio, ulerailit to domestic violence
4. The third wave
- Critique of the second wave and response to backlash
- Sexuality
- Is depedet o lass, rae, age, et. (the’re ot ale to e separated from
gender): A chemical reaction analogy
- Heteronormativity
- Resignification
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