SOCIOL 1360 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Parental Leave, Cisgender, Our Bodies, Ourselves
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Need for feminist critique and alternatives: easy to critique without offering alternatives, how to be feminist and still be feminine. Ex: how to lose weight without giving to patriarchal industries: faux-feminist language used by industry. Using to gain buyers and revenue: marketing is individual; feminism is about a group. Bodies (cid:498)our bodies, ourselves: reproductive rights(cid:499) hooks, (cid:884)(cid:882)(cid:883)5. Sexuality and bodies a focal point of feminist movement: how much control women have over bodies and sexuality, securing rights for safe, effective birth control, privilege impacted specific focus on abortion rather than larger reproductive. Because of this, abortion is the only thing that people think of when rights. Reproductive rights also include: they hear (cid:498)reproductive rights(cid:499) Shouldn"t be surprised that without comprehensive education, women would use abortion as birth control. Focus on abortion fostered by and mobilized opposition: abortion fundamentally challenged religious beliefs. Putting abortion at front of movement brought backlash.
