WGST 1F90 Lecture Notes - Social Reproduction, Glass Ceiling, Consciousness Raising

• School: Brock University
• Department: Women's and Gender Studies
• Course: WGST 1F90
• Professor: Jenny Janke

Document Summary

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it"s the only thing that ever has. Theory is a blueprint a way to explain how and why the world functions. General accounts of how a range of phenomena are connected: discourse: historically variable ways of specifying knowledge that links concepts into ideas we write, speak, think and act within discourses. We need theoretical frameworks to address both the nuances of social/economic/political life and larger systems. Be critical of theoretical frameworks but offer solutions. Intersectional: recognizes that oppression is not based only on gender race, class, sexuality. Liberal feminism: evolved from liberalism (18th and 19th century philosophical/political movements), small l liberals believe in the human capacity to reason and to be rational. Marriage was an arrangement that denied women their basic rights and was a system of brutality. 3 ceiling": called for modifications in such structures which blatantly discriminated against women.