FEM 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Bell Hooks, White Supremacy, Antifeminism

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Women's Studies
• Course: FEM 1100
• Professor: Anna Bogic

Document Summary

Revisiting radical feminism: perceived as physically weak, of delicate health, vulnerably because of their. Radical feminism(cid:495)s criticism of deeply rooted 19th century ideas about women: excessive physical and mental challenges considered damaging to women(cid:495)s, white middle and upper class of women: little or no sex drive. Deviance met: uterus: a source of vast array of illness (body and mind) main function: procreation wombs with medicalization. Female sexuality in a patriarchal society: germain greer"s: the female eunuch: also argued against freud and the, annette koedt: (cid:498)the myth of the vaginal orgasm(cid:499) illustrates a powerful sexual pleasure from women. Contemporary example: film (cid:498)orgasm )nc. (cid:499) about medicalization of female sexuality (cid:498)female sexual dysfunction(cid:499) current state of female sexuality: (cid:498)women have somehow been separated from their libido, from their faculty of desire, from their sexuality. Audre lorde: (cid:498)the master(cid:495)s tools will never dismantle the master(cid:495)s house: identified women(cid:524): (cid:498)only within a patriarchal structure is maternity the only social power open to women(cid:499)