WGST 1808 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Lillian Allen

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Women's and Gender Studies
• Course: WGST 1808
• Professor: Debra Graham

Document Summary

Agency: the capacity to reflect, make choices and act. Current concepts and practices of feminist agency and activism. For activism you must have a vision for change. Feminist movements and grounds for change [researchers have found:] There was a group that was less than a dozen women who got together to figure out how to make a better world. Everyone got a chance to speak, was no hierarchy. Women started to express their personal problems to each other in this group. Maybe there were systemic issues that needed to be addressed. Personally empowered and transformed and has a social impact. Debate is essential for the success of feminism. It requires curiosity and a willingness to not resolve complexity but to engage with it. The collective need for feminist responses to inequality have never faded. People"s choices for activism are nested within personal, local, social and spatial contexts.