GSWS 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Postfeminism, Mantra, Deconstruction
10 Sep 2017
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Of all the social movements in 1960s, the women"s movement continued to grow in countries. Aboriginal women, women of colour, women with disabilities, lesbians, immigrants, and refugees have often pursued a similar strategy regarding the women"s movement as have feminists with regard to mainstream institutions: one of autonomy and integration. They insist on equity in policy making and leadership positions and they struggle to ensure that these organizations embrace their perspectives, practices, and goals. First and second wave feminist thought has very much relied on a unified category of. Woman one whose boundaries are not fluid and whose identity is therefore stable. 02_01 mitchell: more integrative feminism, one that is applicable and accessible to the lived lives of a greater spectrum of people. Attempts to synthesize, build on, and extend what has been accomplished by the first and second waves of feminism, while attending to the particulars of our present moment in historical and feminist contexts.
