WGST 1F90 Lecture Notes - Consciousness Raising, Destiny (Video Game), Gender Studies
10 Dec 2013
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Feminism: underpinning the discipline of women"s and gender studies. Key concepts: feminism, feminist waves, patriarchy, sexism, misogyny, gender, the personal is political, consciousness raising, essentialism, binary thinking. Feminism underscores the discipline of women"s studies. Women"s and gender studies is the academic branch of feminism. Feminism is political, social, economic in scope and interest. No universal definition of feminism; context, time, place and particular intersections inform feminism across the globe. Negative stereotypes exist re feminism/ists type of sexism itself. Feminism rejects hierarchy, oppression, exploitation, and binary thinking. The term feminism emerged in the late 19th century (c. 1892) the first international women"s conference in paris. Women could not: own a property, vote, have guardianship over children, access higher education. Equality for women based on the standards granted to men. Early goal: treat women the same as men. Not all men were treated equally; certain groups of men had more access to power (white, upper and middle class men)
