GGR313H5 Lecture 2: Lecture 2.docx
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Women are different, so they should vote: because they have different opinions/experiences, women are maternal; the peacemakers. Counteract the aggression of men: difference is important. Women are equal, they are all the same. Argument of saying women are innately the peacemakers was a form of essentialism (essential identity that is biologically based) Idea that there are different ways of experiencing womenhood, focusing on the white middle class way of it: multiple feminisms coming through. Switch from political rights to economic rights: equal pay. Equal to white, middle class men: reproductive rights who has the control over a women"s body much variety within both genders) Third wave 1990"s: multiple masculinities (what does it mean to think of equality when there is so. More creative in the variety of things coming forward. Mix and match choose what you want to put together for your own feminism. Fighting against sexual oppression and gender-based oppression, but doing it in more creative ways.
