WGS 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: American Birth Control League, Lucretia Mott, Emma Goldman

• School: University of Oregon
• Department: Women's and Gender Studies
• Course: WGS 101
• Professor: Bufalino, Jamie

Document Summary

Emerged out of the individual experiences of gender subordination by women throughout history. Organized into movements for change that recognize shared oppression based on gender, seek recognition of women"s full humanity, and fight for equality and justice. Complicated by difference in identities, experiences, interlocking oppressions and competing goals. Mass movement in the 1960s and 1970s. Students, activists, middle class, working class, women of color, lesbians, transwomen. Consciousness raising, ending sexism, equal rights, reproductive rights, ending violence against women, social and economic justice. Organization that emerges as a protest movement. Not the responsibility of women to avoid getting raped, it is the responsibility of men not to rape. Federal civil rights act that does not allow institutions that receive governmental funding to discriminate on the bases of sex. Designed to prevent defense attorneys from calling sexual assault victims to the stand and bringing forward their sexual history to the case. Violence against women act (1994, reauthorized 2013)