WGS 325 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: The Feminine Mystique, Precarity, Antihumanism
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Under western eyes : scholarship on third world women via discursive conolonizarion of their lives and struggles. Expose universalizing methodologies that only pertain to western feminists: self interest. White western feminism is wrong and needs to be changed. The local used to specify and illuminate the universal. Hope for a noncolonizing feminist solidarity between borders: get rid of dichotomy within feminism. The ways in which we produce emotion: tangible. Ahmed discusses these objectified emotions: ie if were not feeling happy it returns to the body and it is placed on us, happiness is not produced inside you it is produced by certain practices. Ahmed believes that emotions creates communities and creates groups of others. Emotions are attached to us in different kinds of way. Words generate meaning from history and context: can take on new meanings through change. Emotion are mediated through words that are not fixed. Things that may appear personal to us may not be.
