WOMENST 2AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Bell Hooks, Lorde, Intersectionality
10 Apr 2019
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Citation is how we acknowledge out debt to those who came before; those who helped us find our way when the way was obscured because we deviated from the paths we were told to follow" (15-16) "citations can be feminist bricks: they are the materials through which, we create our own dwellings" (16) "to attend to feminist classics is to give time:blocking the possibility of opening our wars to what came before" (17) Draw from at least 3 texts to create your arguments. Cultural (alpert) post-modernist - women as a category becomes troubling, get idea of intersectionality (oppression and way it manifests in life of individual more complicated than one form of difference) Mohanty (transnational): feminist politics/thought: each conversation first 4 texts = general overview: introduction to politics of feminist thought. Razack (critical race/decolonizing in canada)-- make sense of different developments in feminist thought post 9/11. Nisha"s visit transgender thought actually intensifies and helps political of feminist and queer thought.
