WGST 1808 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Ageism

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Women's and Gender Studies
• Course: WGST 1808
• Professor: Debra Graham

Document Summary

There is no certain look for feminism. Feminists are white old ladies and they are all the same. We have been socialized to believe that we should be beautiful from when we were young. We live in a consumer capitalistic society. We question power whether it"s a male or a female. Feminism is the fight for equality; not just for women. Culture and political inequalities linked emphasizes women"s lives in terms f a sexist structure of power. Women studies emerged as the place to explore the positioning of gender in culture. The first wave were: race, sexuality, migration. Third waves 1990s: embraces contradictions and conflicts when we start to talk about equality, focus on gender. Culturally exalted form(s) of masculinity that are linked. Emphasized feminists: and supervised men sexualized womanhood represented as organized financed. Feminisms is for everyone: aboriginal women, feminism and diversity and diversity verna st. denis.