WMST 1000 Lecture Notes - Feminist Movement, Paula Gunn Allen, Reproductive Rights

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Women's Studies
• Course: WMST 1000
• Professor: Andrew Robinson

Document Summary

Women studies courses investigate women"s experiences, perspectives, and contributions, placing women at the center of inquiry. Allows us to understand aspects of the world that other subject (like sociology, philosophy etc. ) would not cover. This is two different things that women"s studies focuses one. Women studies have generated new concepts and approaches to understanding the world. We cannot understand the world without understanding women"s experiences, perspectives, and contributions. Women"s studies emphasize an interactive learning process that challenges students intellectually and emotionally. Women"s studies emerged from questions women asked about their own experiences, and this process remains a central part of women"s education. The values of feminism have shaped an approach to teaching termed feminist pedagogy. For many women, especially those who have experienced discrimination, educational institutions of our society have been limiting, rather than empowering, to women. The practices of educational institutions frequently encourage women to pursue jobs in female areas and not in male areas.