WMST 2000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Third-Wave Feminism, Feminism, Queer Theory
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Chapter 1: women"s and gender studies: perspectives and practices. Wgs (women"s and gender studies) is an interdisciplinary academic field devoted to topics concerning women, gender, and feminism. To (1) provide an academic framework and broad based community of inquiry about the impacts of gender practices on social, cultural, and political thought and behavior and to (2) provide advocacy and work towards social change. When men are put at the center of society and women are regarded as outsiders. Wgs started with the emergence of women"s studies programs and departments that were working to correct the misrepresentation of women in higher education curriculum as well as lack of women in positions of power. Concerned women"s voting rights (suffrage) and to overturn legal obstacles women faced. Social activism that addressed formal and informal inequalities (workplace, family, sexuality, and reproductive freedom) A wave of feminist activity influenced by postmodernism, queer theory, and multiracial feminism.
