WGS 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Intersectionality, Gender Binary, Medicalization

• School: Syracuse University
• Department: Women’s and Gender Studies
• Course: WGS 101
• Professor: Sarah Miraglia

Document Summary

Waves of feminism: 1st wave voting rights, 2nd wave expanding women"s rights, 3rd wave women of color joined feminist movements. Dominant interest and ideas masquerading as common sense : views on cultural, economy, religion, inequality, poverty, etc. are shaped by dominant groups. Operates through coercion (force) and consent (seduction) Communicated through film, television, education, policies, books, etc. A common sense history about feminist movements. Chronical historically as a movement led by white middle-class women and their issues and struggles. Struggled for equal rights within unequal systems. Deals with class issues, gender, and/or race. You cannot separate gender from race from class from sexuality from disability, from who we really are, etc: you cannot separate who we really are. Practice and theory that proves feminist to think more inclusively about it. Out multiple identities interact with social systems and shape experience. Works on and through bodies: regulates bodies. Politics of fear: fear of lgbtq population as threats to sexual safety.