WMGS 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Masculinity, Gender Studies, Rela

• School: StFX
• Department: Women’s And Gender Studies
• Course: WMGS 101
• Professor: Nancy Forestell

Document Summary

Taught first women"s history course at university of toronto in 1971, this was one of the first in north america. Women"s and gender studies: roots in second-wave feminism (late 1960s, early. Recognition that studying the history/status of women was important. Achieving equal political, economic, cultural and social rights for women. Both men and women of all ages and cultures. Women are seen as people and not objects rape culture. * equality is the heart of feminism * Featured feminist: bell hooks [all lower case on purpose to distinguish her from her grandmother] A leading feminist theorist and cultural critic. Black women and feminism (1981), and she has a long list of other publica- tions. As the title suggests, this book was a major intervention in feminist thought because it drew attention to the differences between white women and black women.