WGST 1F90 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Feminist Theory, Meritocracy, Glass Ceiling
10 Sep 2015
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Theory is a blueprint a way to explain how and why the world functions. General accounts of how a range of phenomena are connected: discourse: historically variable ways of specifying knowledge that links concepts into ideas we write, speak, think and act within discourses. We need theoretical frameworks to address both the nuances of social/economic/political life and larger system. Be critical of theoretical frameworks but offer solutions. Feminist theory is about doing meaning feminist theory is a critical and political practice. Intersectional: recognizes that oppression is not based only on gender race, class, sexuality. Marriage was an arrangement that denied women their basic rights and was a system of brutality. Glass ceiling. concern was not as much who was doing work inside the home: called for modifications in such structures which blatantly discriminated against women. Marxist feminists: used marxist concepts, ideas to explain the material and class oppression of women.
