WGSS 1104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Missy Elliott

• School: UConn
• Department: Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
• Course: WGSS 1104
• Professor: Terri Smith

Document Summary

My reflection paper is on the handout, handout: under construction : identifying. Foundations of hip-hop feminism and exploring bridges between black second-wave and. This article identifies the sociopolitical objectives and strategies of hip-hop feminism, finds the points of commonality between generations of black american feminist, and traces the varied black feminist arguments regarding the relationship between hip-hop and feminism. This article explores the sociopolitical objectives of hip-hop feminism, addresses the generational ruptures that those very objectives reveal, and explores the practical and theoretical qualities that second- and third-wave generations of black feminists have in common. I found this article very effective because it gave me a better understanding on what. I found it interesting how the article starts off mention the hip-hop artist, rapper. Missy elliot, in which reveals elliot opens her album by explaining that under construction signifies that she is still working on herself.