WGS205H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Individualist Feminism, Bell Hooks, Neoliberalism
14 Dec 2015
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The gaze has been and is a site of resistance for colonized people globally. Subordinates in relations of power learn experientially that there is a critical gaze, one that looks to document, one that is oppositional. In resistance struggle, the power of the dominated to assert agency by claiming and cultivating awareness politicizes. Looking relations one learns to look a certain way in order to resist: the act of looking back defiantly, an act of resistance, destroys the hierarchy of who should and should not look in our culture. Radical feminist position (protection): (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1: sexuality in a male-dominated society involves danger, sexual practices can perpetuate violence against women, sexual liberation masks women"s objectification and oppression under compulsory heterosexuality. Libertarian feminist position (pro-sex): examination of how women"s internalization of their victimization restricts their agency, focus on potentially liberating aspects of sexuality, focus on rights and freedoms. Individuals are entrepreneurial actors, increasingly responsible for themselves despite socio-economic constraints.
