WGS101 Study Guide - Final Guide: Gay Liberation, Nigger, Chemise

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Women's and Gender Studies
• Course: WGS101
• Professor: Felice Lifshitz

Document Summary

Wants to claim" a woman directed education. Wants real education; the study of women"s experiences have been ignored throughout history. Talks about not letting the potentialities of women"s minds go to waste or be denied or paralyzed. Forces women to not allow themselves to just give up and get married and have kids to run away from a problem put in place by society. Men have created education; we"ve learnt about their history. Women perceived as wives"; denying their intelligence to seem more feminine". Reading 2: what"s feminism done (for me) lately? . Talks about the treatment of women and minority groups. Describes the evolution of women within indigenous groups as well as minorities such as black people who suffered slavery in the us and canada, Explains the struggles and hardships of everything women suffer through, from the social consequences that women have gone through to being diagnosed with breast cancer and the attention it draws towards it.