GSWS 101 Study Guide - Final Guide: Consumerism, Consciousness Raising, Reproductive Rights

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Gender Sexuality & Wom St
• Course: GSWS 101
• Professor: Lara Campbell

Document Summary

Gsws final exam terminology: personal is political. second-wave feminism was marked by the slogan the personal is political. The slogan infers that issues often thought of as personal or individual, such as sexual or domestic violence, were in fact deeply rooted public issues related to women"s inequality (modules 1) Textbook page 50: consciousness raising signaled that the power relations that animated a personal life would no longer be accepted as private and therefore needed to be openly discussed within public policy: green consumerism. Green consumerism is part of a process by which environmentalism is being reduced to a question of lifestyle; environmentalism has becoming privatized and depoliticized. It is visible in the trend of greening of consumer products. More and more products, primarily household cleaning products, are labelled as being green , Thus, to be "environmentally friendly requires the use of "green" products and the intensification of household labour.