SOCIOL 3488 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Feminist Theory, Frankfurt School
9 Sep 2016
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Four key ideas: starting point = situations of women in society (deconstruct universal approach, main goal = description of social world from vantage point of women (parallels. Marx: wide reach = interdisciplinary, international scholars, activists, artists, reflexive approach = able to use its methods on itself. Fundamental questions: and what about the women? . Women present in most social situations unless excluded: why is all this as it is? . Gender is a social construction: and what about the differences among women? . Gender intersects class, race, ethnicity, age, religion, marital status, etc: how can we make the world more just for all people? . Critical social theory = adjust world for marginalized (not just women) History of feminism: europe: trickle of feminist writing 1630s 1780s, then an uptick, usa: first wave starting in 1830s. 1848 = first women"s rights convention in seneca falls, ny. 1920 = right to vote with 19th amendment.
