REC100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Feminist Theory, Sexting, Empowered

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Recreation and Leisure Studies
• Course: REC100
• Professor: Bryan Smale

Document Summary

By the end of this module, you will be able to: differentiate between the terms gender and sex, understand how we both resist and reproduce gender roles, and recognize how gender impacts our leisure behaviour. Top 5 things we wish students (and everyone!) Understood about gender: everyone has a gender! Not only are men and transgendered individuals invited and welcome to identify as feminists, feminist ideologies help everyone. While feminism"s first focus is on improving equality for women and other marginalized groups, more equitable practices and policies benefit society at large: gender impacts upon all aspects of life. It is important to be conscious, critical consumers of the gendered messaging around us: resistance is not futile! The evolution of gender research with leisure studies. Summary: male scholarship compensatory phase bifocal scholarship feminist scholarship new/gender scholarship. Feminist theory in leisure research: feminists disagree on the source of oppression and means of abolishment, four main approaches: liberal, marxist, radical, and socialist.