GWST 1501 Lecture 5: GWST 1501 - Week 5
27 Nov 2018
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Most feminist believe that social change is possible and desirable. Most feminists aim to achieve gender equality in all aspects of society including politics, the economy, religion, the media and culture. Feminism is a political way of being, thinking and living in the world. Feminism is not about hating or blaming men, but about seeing how all people are situated in complex power relationships, and act sometimes as victims and sometimes as oppressors often both at the same time. Feminism seeks to end the harmful effects of oppositional and traditional sexism for all of us: women, men, and trans people alike. Bell hooks argues we need to move beyond our own experiences to consider the experiences of people who might be quite different from us. Not all women experience inequality in the same way: not all women experience being women in the same way, thus, there is no one single feminism, and there never has been.
