FEM 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Ableism, Rape Crisis Center, Peggy Mcintosh

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Women's Studies
• Course: FEM 1100
• Professor: Corrie Scott

Document Summary

The history of science has long been the history of failed efforts to justify social beliefs. (ian haney. Race is not based on biology, but race is rather an idea that we ascribe to biology. (alan goodman, race: Main goal of 1st wave of feminism: suffrage: right to vote. 2nd wave of feminism: challenge sexual exploitation, established rape crisis centers, abortion laws, equal pay and intersectionality. W(cid:396)ote the fe(cid:373)i(cid:374)i(cid:374)e m(cid:455)sti(cid:395)ue: (cid:862)ho(cid:373)e: a do(cid:373)esti(cid:272) p(cid:396)iso(cid:374)(cid:863), believed women should be able to pa(cid:396)ti(cid:272)ipate e(cid:395)uall(cid:455) outside the household. Black american feminists criticized white second wave feminisms because: They constructed their analysis of women based on the partial and privileged experiences of middle class white women. They tended to generalize the experience of white women to all women. By not interrogating race, they replicated and reinforced the subordination of racialized women. Women living in different social conditions: different point of views on all matters.