CL final feminism

there is the stereotype that feminists focus on the trivial just to make their presence felt, as in the wish to…

move beyond the he to signify the universal human

literature in feminsm

if men's experience is what is significant, then stories about girls and women and their typical experiences are somehow less weighty, or cannot contain "universal" content, or are simply "less than" and hence not eligible to be included in the canon of great books

medicine in feminism

Drugs are tested on only men, and illnesses primarily associated with men are researched. In the USA, there are delays in understanding illnesses more prevalent in women and people of color

The Victorian Angel in the House

who was to conform to traditional gender roles, lives on, according to Tyson, in that even working women are supposed to take care of most domestic chores in the heterosexual home.

intersectionality

class, race, ethnicity, sexuality, and many more considerations must be taken into account when thinking of women for feminism to be truly for all.

penis envy

women don’t lack a penis, they have a clitoris therefore men cannot be the standard

Interdisciplinarity

Feminism draws from any paradigm for concepts that will help women to achieve their liberatory goals with due attention to the potential masculinism of the concepts.

men are essential subjects

independent people with free will

women are contingent beings

dependent beings controlled by circumstances

marriage is viewed as…

a labor contract tying women to unpaid domestic labor, commonly trivialized as “housework.” Women, therefore worked far longer hours than men, since their role as wife and mother was not on the clock.

alimony

When divorced, women had a right to support until they could educate or train themselves for a profession. In this way, their social status did not plummet on divorce or they and their children were not thrown into abject poverty

language points to…

women’s fundamental status as property and deprives them of a sense of their individuality, independence, and autonomy

Ecriture feminine

a kind of writing that short-circuits patriarchal thinking by connecting with the human expressivity of our earliest bonds with our mothers

womanspeak

speaking and writing rooted in women’s sexuality, allowing for ways of being and thinking not tainted by patriarchal understandings and structures

semiotic

connecting to that aspect of language that is not about meaning and its sounds, tone, volume, musicality, etc.

multicultural feminism

Focuses on the experience of women marginalized by White, economically privileged, mainstream feminist who historically held the most visible positions of leadership in US feminist movements

T/F decent affordable housing and gun violence are considered feminist issues

true

Women of color are often split

Women of color are often split between the demands of their own communities and those of the dominant White culture. Feminism can be a force that separates them from their cultures or produces divisiveness within it.