ENG122H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Caryl Churchill, Radical Feminism, Metatheatre
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First wave votes for women wwi: white, middle-class movement. Second wave - radical feminism - women"s liberaion - late 1960s and early 1970s: protested the objeciicaion of women, tradiional femininity, lack of social and poliical power for women. Patriarchy: a social system marked by the supremacy of male igures, i. e. the legal dependence of wives and children on father (the patriarch) in the family. Capitalism: an economic system characterized by private or corporate ownership of capital. Imperialism: the pracice by which a country increases its power by gaining control over other areas of the world: call for dismantling of patriarchal systems, letist criicized capitalism and imperialism. Disrupion of disincion between high art and low art. 1850-1950: science, materialism, certainty; we can know things objecively, passage of ime = progress. Music: all: [sing] come gather, sons of england, come gather in your pride. [clive comes out from under mrs saunders"s skirt. ] Betty: i always seem to be waiing for the men.
