WGST 1F90 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Lyn Mikel Brown, Third-Wave Feminism, Wgst

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

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Lecture title: grrrl power: liberatory, derogatory, or clich . Example: abercrombie and fitch: third wave feminism broadens our understanding of acivism and challenge. Ted talk: dr. lyn mikel brown. (8:14 seconds). Idenify the various ways girl power has been co-opted, why this is a problem and ive (5) things adults can do to support girls. Instead of it being a poliical movement to help girls stand up, they"ve used it to sell things. Sell things by removing the strength, threw in sexiness and called that power. Girls are being told how to act, and that they can"t self-idenify. It"s sill occurring, but it"s being used against the original goal of girl power. 2 | p a g e: ask genuine quesions to reveal contradicions; employ criical thinking. First step in transformaion: scafold their acivism; give them tools, training, to transform silence to acion, get out of the way, because they are going to do amazing things.