GWS 200- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 26 pages long!)

• School: University of Kentucky
• Department: Gender and Women's Studies
• Course: GWS 200
• Professor: Mikaela Feroli

Document Summary

Consciousness raising: revolutionary feminist consciousness-raising emphasized the importance of learning about patriarchy as a system of domination, how it became institutionalized and how it is perpetuated and maintained . The threat, the enemy, is sexist thought and behavior . A collection of black feminists who have been meeting since 1974. They are actively committed to struggling against racial, sexual, heterosexual and class oppression. As black women, we see black feminism as the logical political movement to combat the manifold and simultaneous oppressions that all women of color face (p. 1) The author does a great job of mentioning well known famous/historic people to support her statements and arguments. Contemporary black feminism is the outgrowth of countless generations of personal sacrifice, militancy, and work by our mothers and sisters (p. Black women who do not identify themselves as feminist have all experienced sexual oppression as a constant factor in day-to-day existence.