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FEMINISM & WOMEN’S STUDIES

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Page 1: Feminism & women’s studies

FEMIN

ISM &

WOMEN’S

STUDIE

S

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FEMINIST ORIGINS OF WOMEN’S STUDIES1970s (so called “second wave” of U.S. feminism)

Academic v. “in the streets”

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TYPOGRAPHY OF FEMINIST THOUGHT

Liberal

Marxist/ Socialist

Women of Color

Radical

Cultural (maternalist)

French Feminists

Psychoanalytic

Postmodern

Lesbian

Queer

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DIFFERENTIAL CONSCIOUSNESS

“The differential model of oppositional consciousness depends upon the ability to read the current situation of power and of self—consciously choosing and adopting the ideological form best suited to push against its configurations, a survival skill well known to oppressed peoples. Differential consciousness requires grace, flexibility, and strength…”

-Sandoval, “US Third World Feminism” (1991), anthologized in Feminism & ‘Race’, p. 272

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KEY CONCEPTS

Intersectionality (as opposed to a pop-bead approach)

1st, 2nd, and 3rd waves

Global/transnational feminisms