WS100 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Double Bind, Transphobia, Justin Trudeau
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What is women and gender studies: not one thing, perspective or discipline analyzes relations of power, considers social justice, considers race, gender, class, and other categories as not natural and inevitable but socially constructed, engages with feminist theories. Waves of feminism: what are commonly referred to as the waves of feminism, what are prominent theories of "second wave of feminism" First wave came from the change in society and figuring out what role women should have in this new society. The first wave was an attempt to answer that question. Late 1800"s- early 1900"s: central to discussion of the woman question. Criticism: not an intersectional approach, didn"t represent everyone. They were white, wives of ministers, heterosexual. (anglo-saxon: eugenics - allowing some people with better genes to reproduce to create a "better" race (through sexual sterilization acts etc. ) Late 1960"s - late 1980"s: equal rights feminism" and women"s liberation.
