WOMS200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Emma Watson, Bell Hooks, Intersectionality
22 May 2018
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Lecture 7
Itroductio to Woe’s, Geder ad “eualit “tudies
Feminism
• Stereotypes
• Goals: equal pay, safety
• Definitions
o Adichie
o Emma Watson
o Bell Hooks
Patriarchy
• Beneficiary: white, straight men
• Who participates?
o All of us
▪ Takig e’s last names
▪ Normalizing the binary
▪ Gender roles (breadwinners)
▪ the ale gaze
Queer
• How has the LGBTQ+ community been excluded from feminism over the years?
• Intersectionality
Oppression & Privilege
• Oppression: primary force that keeps marginalized people from achieving full equality
and social justice
• Privilege: a set of advantages enjoyed by those who are empowered by US social
hierarchies
o What are some of these hierarchies?
▪ Education, jobs, wealth, race, religion, gender
• All oppression is connected
Intersectionality
• Coined in 1988 by Kimberlé Crenshaw
• Interlocking systems of oppression
• People’s idetities are cople, ofte ot fittig easil ito distict social categories
Birth of Woe’s “tudies
• Roots in social movements of the 1960s and 1970s
• National Woe’s Studies Associatio NWSA – 1977
• Transformation of the classroom
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