SOC219H5 Lecture 5: Soc219 Lecture 5
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From victims to self-defensers, patients & clients: consciousness-raising: collective activist strategy in which combined experiences of oppression and marginalized are shared, analyzed, and mobilized to better understand the conditions of one"s oppression. Group of people collected in coffee house/living room to collectively share stories/experiences of oppression and naming them as experiences of oppression. End in and of itself: old left, new left: philosophers have hitherto only interpreted the world in various ways; the point is to change it. (marx, theses on feuerbach, thesis. By interpreting the world you change it. Embodiment victims as self-defensers: or the personal is political (feminist slogan, a new kind of consciousness-raising", performativity & the fighting spirit". Embodiment can change the way someone can look at themselves: feminist tensions. Can you be a feminist and endorse violence in a certain case. Saying violence is off limits to women is implicitly saying they cannot handle it.
