SOC 525 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Alice Walker, Lauryn Hill, Heteropatriarchy
29 Apr 2016
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Global motherhood has surfaced as a logic through which white womens" bodies are spilling into the global community and offering visions and hopes of a multicultural global family (p. 109): colonialism & the trans-atlantic slave trade, globalization. Hip-hop feminism: a feminism that can read sexual objectification and agency within the same artist or textual production (p. 187) The black folk expression of mothers to female children, you acting womanish," i. e. like a woman usually referring to outrageous, audacious, courageous, or willful behavior. Wanting to know more and in greater depth than is considered good" for one [a womanist is also] a woman who loves other women sexually and/or nonsexually. Appreciates and prefers women"s culture and women"s strength committed to survival and wholeness of entire people, male and female. Not a separatist womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender. alice walker. Under the white supremacist hetero-patriarchy: physically labour, emotionally labour, black motherhood. Reproduces the low-wage welfare economy (p. 189)
