POL320Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Simone De Beauvoir, The Feminine Mystique, Betty Friedan
3 Nov 2018
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Pol201 week one second semester two: gender and development: the woman question in the global south (7. 1. 18) Identify approached to women and gender: historical and theoretical foundation, links between social construct and gender, forms of gender inequality and campaigns to empower women on a global scale. Feminist theory and strategies: 3 waves of feminism, 1st generation: right to vote, child custody and education. Women were asking for equal rights: 2nd wave was asking for social rights, 3rd wave women were asking for reproductive rights, 2 important writes simone de beauvoir, the second sex 1949. The feminine mystique 1963: feminists perspectives and strategies include, liberal feminists, liberal ideology, usually white middle class women. They challenge the definition of family: black/third world feminists, race matters, oppressed not only as women as colonized subjects, post-modern feminists, more critical and reject old paradigm. The feminist equation: muslim feminists needs to be broken down to race and class and location.
