CAS WS 101 Lecture Notes - Redstockings, Nancy F. Cott, Elite

• School: Boston University
• Department: Women's, Gender, & Sexuality Studies
• Course: CAS WS 101
• Professor: belle

Document Summary

Part i: an intellectual history in three waves. Adapted from nancy cott"s definition in the grounding of. Sisterhood ) between women based on their common disfranchisement and social oppression. ?---criticizing the sisterhood of sameness ; grrrl power: why is it useful to think of feminist activity as happening in. Waves : how does the wave theory of feminist history constrain us, can be reductive, ignores important activity between waves , focuses too much on the american experience of feminism. Early arguments for women"s rights: abigail adams: remember the ladies! , remember all men would be tyrants if they could. If perticuliar care and attention is not paid to the laidies we are determined to foment a. Women in the nineteenth century: coverture, in traditional english practice, at marriage a husband gained access to the body of his wife; it followed that he could easily pressure her into agreement with him on all other matters.