COMS 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Critical Race Theory, Feminist Theory, Socialist Feminism

• School: University of Calgary
• Department: Communications Studies
• Course: COMS 201
• Professor: Samantha Thrift

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Coms 201 lecture 12: feminist & critical race theory. Grounded in concern about, and desire to effect change in, the subjugated status of women . Aim to explain the sources of women"s oppression. Identify sources of differences between women and men. Feminist theories critique these dualisms, by interrogating why one element is valued over the other and by providing alternative ways of thinking and theorizing these relationships in order to develop real world transformation is gender-based oppressions. In a dualism, one term is typically values more highly than the other. Critique of the politics of language its role in perpetuating androcentric (male- centered) ways of thinking and knowing. Segregation of blacks and whites, according to the logic that black people were. These state and local fostered a hostile environment in which african americans were subjected to inferior treatment and standards of living.