feminism & women’s studies
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FEMIN
ISM &
WOMEN’S
STUDIE
S
FEMINIST ORIGINS OF WOMEN’S STUDIES1970s (so called “second wave” of U.S. feminism)
Academic v. “in the streets”
TYPOGRAPHY OF FEMINIST THOUGHT
Liberal
Marxist/ Socialist
Women of Color
Radical
Cultural (maternalist)
French Feminists
Psychoanalytic
Postmodern
Lesbian
Queer
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
KEY CONCEPTS
Intersectionality (as opposed to a pop-bead approach)
1st, 2nd, and 3rd waves
Global/transnational feminisms