GWS 10 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Transvestism, Genderqueer, Asexuality

• School: Berkeley
• Department: Gender And Women's Studies
• Course: GWS 10
• Professor: Barbara Barnes

Document Summary

Transgender: the movement across a socially impose boundary away from an unchosen starting place. Mainstream feminism in the 1970s wanted to raise women"s consciousnesses about their own private suffering by grounding that experience in a political analysis of the categorical oppression of women. A goal of this book is to situate transgender social change activism within an expanded feminist framework, which requires us to think in different ways about how the personal is political, and about what constitutes gender-based oppression. The first wave was focused on dress reform, access to education, political equality, and suffrage. The second wave addressed a wide range of issues, including equal pay, sexual and reproductive freedom, recognition of women"s unpaid work in the household, better media representations of women, and rape and domestic violence. The third wave was a generational response to the second wave"s shortcomings, particularly the tendency of second wave feminists to overlook differences among women.