WSTA03H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter Radical Feminism: Radical Feminism, Rape Crisis Center, Feminist Theory
5 Apr 2017
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Micro-inequities of everyday life-being ignored and interrupted not, getting credit for competence or good performance, being passed over for jobs that involve taking charge- crystallize into a pattern that insidiously wears women down. Mary rowe termed it the saturn"s rings phenomenon . The seemingly trivial sexist incidents, are like the dust particles in the rings around the planet saturn- separately they are tinny, but when they coalesce, they form visible pattern. Young women activists" realization of their vulnerability to men"s physical and emotional demands, to harassment and denigration of their bodies, and especially to rape, battering, and other forms of violence led to new feminisms. Out of their awareness that they had no place in any brotherhood and the realization that their activist brothers could be dangerous to them came the. Their watchword is patriarchy, or men"s subordination to women.
