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10/16/24, 9:24 AMWGS Test #1
Jeremiah
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can be considered like a portal, opening up a new and previously inaccessible way
Threshold Concept of thinking about something. It represents a transformed way of understanding, or
interpreting, or viewing something without which the learner cannot progress.
Feminism the advocacy of women's rights on the basis of the equality of the sexes.
Advocates feminism.
Feminist Believes in the social, political and economic equality of the sexes
Uses feminism as a lens for understanding the world
1.) Equality and justice for all women -eliminate systems of inequality and injustice
Principles of Feminism 2.) Inclusive and affirming of women - celebrates women and their achievements
Personal perspective and social movement
- 1st wave feminism (Mid 1800's to early 1900's)
Waves of Feminism - 2nd wave feminism (1960's to 1980's)
- 3rd wave feminism (Early 1990's to present)
Issues: Political personhood, women's suffrage
- Many 1st Wave feminists had experience in Abolition Movement
1st Wave Feminism (Mid 1800's to early
- Started with Seneca Falls Convention (1848)
1900's)
- Propelled by white, middle-class women; focused on women as a uniform group
- 19th Amendment adopted in 1920, granted women the right to vote
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Issues: Family, reproductive justice, workplace rights, safety from violence,
elimination of cultural sexism
- Emerged during the
"cycle of protest"
- Challenged generic notion
of "woman"
*Inclusive of women of
2nd wave feminism (1960's to 1980's) color, women from
developing nations
*Race/class/sexual
identity (intersections)
"The personal is political"
- Women's Studies emerges
*First program at San Diego State University - 1970
*Now more than 700 programs across the U.S.
Issues: LGBTQ rights, racial justice, gender identity, preventing violence, reproductive
justice, workplace rights and work-life balance, resistance to objectification
- Internationally: Economic equality, equal political representation, preventing
3rd wave feminism (Early 1990's to present) violence (e.g., honor killings, female genital cutting)
- Deconstructs "universal womanhood"
* Intersectionality of systems of inequality
* Women's experiences with oppression differ
- Feminism is dead
- Feminists are angry, extreme, militant
- Feminists are ugly, hairy, braless, don't wear make-up, etc.
Stereotypes and Misconceptions About
- Feminists hate men
Feminism
- Only women can be feminists
- All feminists are lesbians (or male feminists are gay)
- Feminists are making a big deal out of nothing
Reality:
- Women have come a long way, but still have a long way to go to reach equality
Feminism Misconception: Feminism is dead
- Poverty, violence, pay equity, etc.
- "If feminism is dead, then why do people have to keep on trying to kill it?" (Valenti)
Reality:
- Some feminists do respond with anger to societal injustice
Feminism Stereotype: Feminists are angry,
- Society characterizes women's anger differently than men's
extreme, militant
- "Bra-burning feminists"
WGS Test #1 didn't burn bras
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