WGST 1F90 Lecture Notes - Lecture 36: United Nations Development Fund For Women, Consumerism, Computer Engineering
3 Apr 2016
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[from january 13] resistance is not futile: body is central to feminism and feminist activism (and wgst too). 2. use our bodies to resist the norms, ideals given to us. (ie. female body builders, male ballerinas, resisting expectations of beauty, gender). 6. be critical of advertisers who co-opt feminism (i. e dove campaign for real beauty). Where do yo spend your $: look to woman produced and centered cultural productions (zines, music, lms, that do not reproduce idealized notions of femininity), be aware of the insidious normalization of narrow, limited/limiting standards of beauty. 1. intersecting oppressions of race, class, gender and sexuality need ideological justi cations: the portrayal of black women through the use of controlling images is a way to make racism, sexism, poverty to appear normal, natural. Portraying african-american women as stereotypical mammies, matriarchs, welfare recipients, and hot mammas helps justify u. s. black women"s oppression. Challenging these controlling images has long been a core theme in black feminist thought (hill.
