WMST 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Shulamith Firestone, Black Feminism, Radical Feminism
12 Sep 2016
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Bring down systematic oppression of women and other genders. How are women effected by issues and looking at situations from sex and gender. Wave idea that is tarts and finishes, and passes not lasts, when it does. Also can be part of more than one wave. First wave: maternal feminism women should be able to have more rights based on the right to vote, because they are more ethical and are caretakers of society. Home is seen as a softer place, and work, after industrialization, is more dirty/less safe. Ages of women in the maternal feminism are married mothers/caregivers. The other role of first wave feminism is the. New women feminism, those on bikes for example. Nancy hewit article: telling us to look out for work of abolition, and wants us to reposition seneca falls and put it back in that history of what else was going on in the world at that time.
