POLS 2110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Socialist Feminism, Ecofeminism, Feminist Theory

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Theories continued: eco-feminism, sameness v. difference, post-modern feminism. Combination of liberal, cultural and socialist feminism. Celebrate women"s biology and closeness to nature: human nature not greater than non-human nature. Theories to date emphasize women"s sameness: modern feminism critique. Misses distinctions between women that have important impacts on theory and practice: audre lorde: the assumption [is] that the herstory and myth of white women is the legitimate and sole herstory (on p. 38) Many feminist theories of the second wave essentialize women"s: biological and related gender differences only. Third wave contemporary debates challenge the core assumptions of second wave theories. Dietz identifies these three as oppositional ways to look at the category of women (p. 41) Diversity: women are not defined solely by their sex and gender. What are some key areas of diversity: class, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, age, ability, colonialism, nationalism, religion, culture, citizenship. Questions the idea that there is one", true" women"s voice or.

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