WGS 496 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Afrikaners
23 Mar 2017
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Salo, elaine, a history of feminist movements, the south african women"s. Pg 68 rural women prioritize access to land, safe water, and health services, while urban women consider safety in the public sphere crucial . Pg 68 i define feminism as a temporal movement, when women have won the space to assert their collective gendered identity and transform existing gendered power relations either partially or wholly. When and how women are able to do so is always informed by the local histories of gender relations. Pg 69 mcclintock all nationalisms are gendered and all nationalisms are dangerous" she points to nationalism"s ability to insatiate women into deeply entrenched, prescribed feminine roles of biological and cultural nurturance and reproduction, thereby underwriting patriarchal leadership. Pg 70 white women were considered the embodied boundaries of the race, and were often used the instruments to facilitate racial exclusion. Pg 72 unionization of labor for all races of women.
