WOMENST 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Global Feminism, Feminist Theory, Neocolonialism

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Women's Studies
• Course: WOMENST 1AA3
• Professor: All

Document Summary

Exploring feminisms as alliance and solidarity: challenges and possibilities. We need some new concepts: colonialism, imperialism, neo-colonialism (and we need to think about how these ideas impact feminist alliance) Promises and pitfalls in transnational feminist alliances and solidarities. Research moment: peer reviewed research and finding peer-reviewed research for your activism or research proposal (and then paper) Mcmaster university dept. of history: introduction to libraries and basic research. Bromley: feminism is a set of analytic tools, applied to making change. Sunseri: the range of that analysis is very broad, and the implications of change vast. Working in alliance means a limited and partial feminism. Australian feminist theorist ien ang: (cid:862)fe(cid:373)i(cid:374)is(cid:373) (cid:373)ust stop (cid:272)o(cid:374)(cid:272)ei(cid:448)i(cid:374)g of itself as a (cid:374)atio(cid:374), a (cid:862)(cid:374)atural(cid:863) politi(cid:272)al desti(cid:374)atio(cid:374) for all women, no matter how multicultural. Self-conscious politics of partiality: making of alliance that respects differences. As opposed to assuming all women are the same; that all women want to help all other women in the same ways.