WMST 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Gender Trouble, Second-Wave Feminism, Intersectionality
8 Sep 2016
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Queer: a term reclaimed both within and outside the academy. Queer theory: is coined by teresa de laureates for a conference she held at the university of santa cruz in 1990. By this time feminism was already pretty concrete in academia, but queer theory was new. A lot of it came from the we"re gonna throw this in your face idea from the aids crisis. Section 1: women as a subject of feminism. Women have been the catalyst for social change in feminism, so only women can really be feminists. Second wave feminism assumes there is one type of woman and they are ghting for that person and no one else. There is an assumption that there is one woman. That visible representation is a good thing, on the other hand only representing one type of woman is not. This also assumes a universal patriarchy, which is not true across all cultures and races.
