FEM 2107 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Angela Davis, Postfeminism, Neoliberalism

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Women's Studies
• Course: FEM 2107
• Professor: Patricia Kmiec

Document Summary

Today"s plan: course updates, thinking about feminism: theory, research, and activism, overview of history of feminism, activity: thinking about contemporary feminism. Right pronouns for gender/sex. challenge your own thinking. challenge how others thing. marches. activism can be collectively or individually. Social institutions, hospitals, schools are becoming more modern. in canada: changing patterns in immigration. People from overseas and not just from the us: theory, main theory: maternal feminism. justified by women"s difference from man. Alternative movements to mainstream feminism of late 19th/early 20th century: labour movements, movements for black voting rights, feminist socialism, feminist anarchist. Emily murphy and commemorating canadian first wave feminists: famous five is a group of five women who were denied personhood by senate of. Alternative movements to mainstream feminism in civil-rights era: civil rights movement, revolutionary groups, early gay rights movement, environmental movements, movements against war.