FEM 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Audre Lorde, Racialization

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Women's Studies
• Course: FEM 1100
• Professor: Shoshana Magnet

Document Summary

1987 women = sh. 67 / for men. 1998 women = sh. 77 / for men. 2011 women = sh. 74 / for men. We also want to think about the ways where women of color may be paid differently than white women. Racialization: the process of being ascribed different categories process vs. label. Recent immigrant women = sh. 62 / for canadian-born women. 4/5 of female undergraduates talked about being victims of violence in dating relationships. 29% of those reported being subjected to forms of sexual assault. 2005 women were 10x more likely to fear for their lives women were 3x (2x?) more likely to be subjected to violence in a relationship. Audre lorde black lesbian, warrior, and poet . Focuses on publishing works by women of color. Criticized the women"s liberation movement for only focusing on paid employment, and said that they should focus also on work conditions, gender, race, and class, etc.