FEM 1100 Lecture 3: Feminism; lecture #3
20 Oct 2016
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Connection between our day-to-day activities and experiences as women and larger processes. Important: l+s+r feminist theory have in common a commitment to redefining the relationship of sex and gender and to making visible relations of power between women and men. Uncovering the invisible; challenging the ways in which different characteristics, roles, and behaviors are attributed to men and women. Common for all feminist theories; a commitment to social change through the eradication of women(cid:495)s oppression from discriminatory practices. Women"s studies: the re-education of a whole culture, to help it move away. Main principles and goals: natural rights (universal and inalienable: all human beings are inherently rational (equal to one another, meritocracy: rejection of hereditary privilege, equal opportunity, freedom of choice. If you were not a white property owning male, you were excluded. Principle #1: women are persons (the 1929 persons case) Liberalism, enlightenment: rejection of hereditary rule, divine right of kings, absolute monarchy, state-religion (meritocracy, democracy, science)
