POL 501 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Sexual Objectification, Patrilineality, Cultural Genocide

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Politics and Public Administration
• Course: POL 501
• Professor: Karen Ruddy

Document Summary

Speaking to and in response to a specific historical and political context: sisterhood. Sharing common experiences by virtue of being women and living in a masculine society. Claiming the marginalized identity of woman, and women"s shared experiences of sexist oppression, as the basis of feminist politics . Part of the problem is cultural ^ need to change the cultural of women in society. Marginalized out of the mainstream, ignored, demonized. Dominant framework that came out during the second wave: critiques of sisterhood. Binary (not all men are the same and not all women are the same. Victimhood (allowed feminist movement to exclude those women) Intersectionality: the concept of political intersectionality highlights the fact that women of colour are situated within at least two subordinated groups that frequently pursue conflicting political agendas (kimberele crenshaw) We are all simultaneously privileged and oppressed. Need to expand the intersection for everyone"s benefits. *how a system of power work in and through others*