WGS 325 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Seneca Falls Convention, The Second Sex, The Communist Manifesto

• School: TCNJ
• Department: Women's & Gender Studies
• Course: WGS 325
• Professor: Marla J

Document Summary

Wave metaphor-very limiting: stories of women"s lives and movements: simultaneous, multiple, connected. The readings in the feminist movements subsection urge readers to rethink feminist times and spaces by challenging the prevailing representation of feminist movements as waves. Globalizing the waves of feminism in the us: comparing them to events around the world at the same time: ex. 1848: seneca falls convention, slavery abolished in west indies, signing of treaty of guadalupe, mexican-american war ended, communist manifesto published, french and german revolutions. 5 subjects of contemporary feminist theory: gender- anglophone feminists developed the idea of gender to counter the claim that biology is destiny, difference, women"s experiences, the personal is political, intersectionality. Orientalist discourse sets up binary opposition of primitive and civilized in which the. Lesbianism threatens male supremacy at its core. Racism is a feminist issue because feminism is a political theory and practice that struggles to free all women .