SOSC 1185 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Bell Hooks, Complex Analysis, Intersectionality
2 May 2018
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Winter Handout for Lecture 12
For SOSC 1185 from L. Wiggins
Women Organizing for Change: Into the Future
1. Third Wave Feminisms
This is a very dynamic, open ended, flexible feminism which stresses an intersectional analysis, &
a multiplicity of feminisms
Goals: to explore & expose sexism and patriarchy and other ‘isms’; and to transform/create a new
world
- Shattering and opening up the definition of feminism
- Necessity for the need of a intersectional analysis
- More emphasis on activism than educating – getting out and doing
- Time period is an influence – utilizes technology, challenge boundaries, remove labels, etc.
- “feminism is for everybody” – bell hooks 2000
2. Main themes & analysis:
• Being inclusive while recognizing differences
- Achieve balance – piercy trying to create balanced utopian world
- Homogenize 2nd wave fem
- 3rd wave importance to sisterhood – “sisterhood is global” (motto in the beginning)
• Anti-essentialist, sees gendering as socially, historically constructed and dynamic, flexible
• Emphasis on:
o activism or ‘doing’, providing a synthesis between theory & practice
o personal empowerment & agency
o making alliances with other social justice movements
o breaking down boundaries, especially binary categories or boundaries of sex,
gender, sexuality
o developing a complex analysis of power relations & dynamics
o bodies and embodiments
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Document Summary
Women organizing for change: into the future: third wave feminisms. This is a very dynamic, open ended, flexible feminism which stresses an intersectional analysis, & a multiplicity of feminisms. Goals: to explore & expose sexism and patriarchy and other isms"; and to transform/create a new world. Shattering and opening up the definition of feminism. Necessity for the need of a intersectional analysis. More emphasis on activism than educating getting out and doing. Time period is an influence utilizes technology, challenge boundaries, remove labels, etc. Feminism is for everybody bell hooks 2000: main themes & analysis, being inclusive while recognizing differences. 3rd wave importance to sisterhood sisterhood is global (motto in the beginning) Achieve balance piercy trying to create balanced utopian world. As noted by karaian & mitchell (2010), third wave hasn"t abandoned institutional forms of resistance, but tries to subvert more actively from within & argues for a diversity of tactics in making change.
