GWST 2800Y Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Simone De Beauvoir, Bell Hooks, Class Discrimination
28 Jan 2015
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Structural, embedded in and reproduced by various kinds of social and cultural institutions. The advocacy of women"s rights on the grounds of political, social, ad economic equality to men. Hooks might say this definition is too narrow feminism is about advancing all genders rights as well. Interventions include performing, poems, writing, protests/political organizations, online campaigning for equality, academic interventions (our textbook) French writer, intellectual, existentialist philosopher, political activist, feminist, and social theorist th and 20. In europe, urban industrialism, liberal and social politics. Fought for new opportunities for women, emphasized suffrage (the vote) th centuries 1 st wave nd wave. Critiques: overemphasing the oppression of white middle class women to the exclusion of other women. Waves create the idea that these movements move in and out and there weren"t any feminist movements going on outside of those times. Each being for itself establishes itself as a subject, a self by defining other beings as objects, as others.
