GSWS 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Hegemonic Masculinity, Sole Power, Antonio Gramsci

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Gender Sexuality & Wom St
• Course: GSWS 102
• Professor: Jen Marchbank

Document Summary

Surrey galleria 5- friday 2-4pm (or by apt) Feminist goals- definition, establishment and protection of equal social, political, economic and cultural rights. Feminism is a collection of movements and ideologies aimed at defining, establishing, and defending equal political, economic and social rights for women. Feminism advocates for & supports the rights and equality of women. Feminism supports rights for all and is intersectional. Intersectional: the length to which you look at things, not all women are the same, not all men are the same. Examples from around the world (cid:862)(cid:449)o(cid:373)e(cid:374) (cid:449)ere perso(cid:374)s, (cid:271)ut (cid:374)ot e(cid:374)ough to hold a se(cid:374)ate seat(cid:863) By the 1990s it was recognized that fe(cid:373)i(cid:374)is(cid:373) (cid:449)as (cid:374)ot (cid:858)o(cid:374)e thi(cid:374)g(cid:859) (cid:271)ut that a ra(cid:374)ge of fe(cid:373)i(cid:374)ist positions and theories exist. There is not a singe experience of being female caries by class, geography, history, skin colour, physical abilities. Not limited to only those assigned females at birth.