POLS 2150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Correlation Does Not Imply Causation, Puritans, Liberal Democracy

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLS 2150
• Professor: Carol Dauda

Document Summary

First and second waves" grounded in earlier movements around race issues . 19th anti-slavery movement, mid-20th century civil rights movement. In first wave" suffragist and feminist movement exclusively white. Black women could not afford rupture with men. Were skeptical of white women"s oppression being compared to that of race. Questioned white women having relationships with black men. Black women were torn between both white feminism and black. Black feminists came from the perspective and experience of black women . Writers audre lorde, alice walker and angela davis, bell hooks most prominent. Womanist perspective alice walker avoided feminist" label. Positive feminine: women"s experience is different and this can only be an advantage in broadening the idea of what it is to be fully human. Strategic value: all women are categorized as lesser than men so all women have this in common. Dilemma: movement based on white middle class.