WGS200Y5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Hijab, Intersectionality, Trans Woman
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Amina mama: nigerian british activist research and scholar. How she sees feminism and work of feminist activism taken up in africa, in the south. Noticing gender differences, multi ethnic, multi religious women in mixed schools, getting married when relatively young. Linkage between gender and class, nigeria being aware of that, women being married to older men and when the woman runs away and return the family take her back to the husband. The way the feminism has been institutionalized where certain women has access, shifted the emphasis on grassroots organizations to the state. Neo-liberal, political current situations it can be seen it is pushing back to what happened. Minnie patt: she started doing the feminism in 1960s, she is a lesbian. In the elections, there was no voting booths, there was no privacy, voting for black panther was her first political act. She opposed racism, class and oppression as a white woman.