WGST 1F90 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Wgst, Bell Hooks, Misogyny

• School: Brock University
• Department: Women's and Gender Studies
• Course: WGST 1F90
• Professor: Leslie Nichols

Document Summary

Feminism underscores the discipline of women"s studies; wgst is the academic" branch. Feminism is political, social, economic in scope and interest. Feminism rejects hierarchy, oppression, exploitation, and binary thinking. All can benefit from this socio-political thinking. A singular, undefined definition of feminism is not likely to sustain the waves. Feminism has meant different things according to historical contexts; not a universal definition. Feminism is a dynamic and self-reflective; meaning critical self-reflection is encouraged. Feminism has been described as operating in three waves . Feminism did not disappear between the waves just a metaphor for peaks in activism. We are not to ignore past fights & achievements. Be aware of how rights are won, fought and organized for. Feminism: a movement to end oppression (historical) The term feminist emerged in the late 19th century (around the 1890"s) at the first. Women could not: own property, vote, have guardianship of children, access to higher education.