WS100 Lecture : Womens Studies WS100.docx
17 Jan 2014
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Negative: men haters, exclusive of men, bra burners, hairy legged, defensive/angry, victims, cock/superiority. Characteristics: white, middle class, educated, daughters, writers + journalists, same sex desire, athletic. Micro finance projects: national level, local grassroots organizations, increasing suspicion of the role of the state and state feminism, government agencies mandated to improve women"s status and rights, danger of co opting feminist organization, arises out of post colonial contexts, women agitating to be involved in setting national political agendas, feminist anti war directions, e. g. 10/17/2012: the hierarchical ranking of difference is constructed through social processes such that patterns of difference become systems of privilege and inequality. , distinguished from an additive theory of analysis or the sum total of oppression, intersecting oppressions occur within a context of lived experience and specific locations of power where they take on increasing complexity, examples of hierarchically ranked differences, male/female; young/old; white/non white; rich/poor; able bodied/disabled; small/large; heterosexual/gay, trans, lesbian.
