WRDS 150 Lecture Notes - Domestic Violence, Radical Feminism, Wage Labour

• School: UBC
• Department: Art Studies in Writing
• Course: WRDS 150
• Professor: Katie Fitzpatrick

Document Summary

Introduction: by the early 1990s, it had been clear that the kind of feminist activity that had blossomed from the late. In the late 1960s, it was very useful for feminists to begin to describe their movement as the second wave . It was useful because it reminded people that the then current women"s rights and women"s liberation movement had a venerable past that these movements were not historical aberrations women"s issues. **** the wave metaphor suggests the idea that gender activism in the history of the us have been for the most part, unified around one set of ideas and that set of ideas can be called feminism. How is it problematic: the different kinds of activism around gender that have taken place since the early 19th century in this country cannot be reduced to one term, feminism. It obfuscates the historical specificity of gender activism in the history of us.