WGS 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Women Artists
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Women have the right to equal pay. Few, if any, jobs that women can"t do. Not be confined to housework, should share this work. Don"t need to be in a relationship to be happy. Not subject to sexual harassment in workplace. Right to feel safe from threat of rape, even marital. Feminist poetry is case study for how feminist ideas are formed, adopted and projected into broader culture. Refers to the transformation of cultural and social institutions over time. Transformation in norms, values, beliefs, worldviews (expressive) Conscious, concerted and sustained efforts to produce (or prevent) institutional or cultural change. Cultural praxis : generation of new ideas and new structures of feeling. Intentional, concerted, organized efforts to facilitate (or sometimes prevent) social change. Much of our behavior is driven by social norms, habits and taken-for-granted structures. Can be sites of re-socialization or re-education that changes how we see and interact with the social world.