POLS 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Ecofeminism, Racialization, Participatory Democracy
6 Sep 2016
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Outline: historical emergence: first wave feminism, second wave feminism, links to other ideologies, basic tenets of feminism, common concerns and challenges, social movement politics/activism, third wave feminism, anti-racist, indigenous, and third world feminism. First wave (1800s to 1940s) associated with suffrage movement and legal recognition. Early theorists linked to liberal, marxist, and anarchist theories (e. g. mary wollstonecraft, friedrich. Invention of the pill gave women control over reproduction. Women questioned their relegation to supportive status in some social movements. Women saw special status as women in other movements, traditional roles, values gave them. : anti-vietnam war, civil rights movements, gay liberation movement. Demanded equal status, representation, questioning of male hierarchy special expertise in care, mediation. Women"s involvement in social movements led to the creation of a women"s liberation movement . The personal is political expansion of the concept of the political (your name, gender) Critique of patriarchy (rule of the father/men) and other structures of domination.
