Women's Studies 1020E Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Heterosexuality, Ryan Gosling

• School: Western University
• Department: Women's Studies
• Course: Women's Studies 1020E
• Professor: Kim Verwaayen

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Ableism: our society/ world is built in a particular way that it is structured as healthy, that model results in a misfit. Q: what is intersectionality? young, abled body, individual: not everyone fits into that model. Intersectional approaches understand disadvantage and discrimination in terms of overlapping/interlocking social relations. Think of the metaphor of: slutwalk emerged as a response to rape culture- slut blaming, sexual blaming, wanted to retain the word slut as agency of ones sexual freedom, as a. Important feminist movement- but not without its controversies & problems: feminist problems- who does the slutwalk represent- who seems to be left out- indigenous women- language used to vary sexuality. Identifying men who are active in feminist movements and identify as a feminist: early question was can men be feminists, later- term feminism was introduced, response was how can they not?-