WGS200Y5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Feminist Theory, Indian Act, Eurocentrism

• School: UTM
• Department: Women and Gender Studies
• Course: WGS200Y5
• Professor: Joan Simalchik

Document Summary

Jesse thompson, oshawa-another face of feminism is a trans student who loves hockey, but he was denied boys locker room. Ex: feminists hate men, fat, ugly, hairy and scary, lesbians, men can"t be feminists, irrational, anti-sex, they all believe the same thing (but these are not true) Expanding the circle (there is move, there is change, there is dynamic) Vs. partial knowledge, incorporates marginalized experience and thought. Essentialism is reducing people to series of thought. Biologically based traits-they are born people are born with it, they were always there, they are there and they will be. Bell hooks-one of the leading theorists who started talking about anti-racism in feminism. A book she wrote is ain"t i a women". Not a lifestyle -it is about shifting power relations. Male benefits come at a price -there is a cost. Feminism is about rights, it"s about women gaining equal rights. It gets complicated when it comes to genocide.