Women's Studies: Perspectives and Practices

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Women's Studies: Perspectives and Practices
  1. Covers women, gender, and feminism
    1. Examines women's status in society; wants to improve condition of women's lives
      1. Challenges that men are "human" and women are "others" (androcentrism)
    2. Gender as central aspect of human existence
      1. Gender = way society organizes understanding of sexual difference
      2. Started as concern for absence, misrepresentation, and trivialization of women in the higher education curriculum; and exclusion of women in power power positions for college faculty
        1. esp. for women of color
          1. 60s/70s people demanded knowledge be more inclusive of women's issues
            1. Asked to see more women in leadership positions
              1. Not uncommon to have no women authors for class
                1. Literature full of men's ideas of women as subordinate, etc.
              2. 2 strategies that resulted in changes in production of knowledge of higher education
                1. Rebalanced the curriculum
                  1. Shifted focus from white men to more accurate representations "women in history", "women in art"
                  2. Transformation of traditional knowledge
                    1. "Truth" and objective "facts" recognizes more than just 'white male' view
                2. Women's studies as discipline began in second wave
                  1. Objective: improve women's status in society and, therefore, the condition of women's lives
                    1. Two commitments of women's movement have helped establish women's studies as a a discipline
                      1. To personal change
                        1. To societal transformation
                        2. Goals/objectives of women's studies
                          1. Understand social construction of gender and intersection of gender with other systems of inequality in women's lives
                            1. To learn about the status of women in society and ways to improve it
                              1. Experience how institutions affect individual lives and to think about privilege and discrimination in our own lives
                              2. Feminism
                                1. 2 core principles
                                  1. Feminism concerns equality and justice for all women
                                    1. Seeks to eliminate systems of inequality and injustice in all aspects of women's lives
                                    2. Feminism is inclusive and affirming of women
                                      1. Celebrates women's achievements
                                        1. Works to provide a positive and affirming stance toward women
                                      2. Personal perspective, political theory, social movement
                                        1. Agency
                                          1. Feminist issues in the US are not necessarily issues other places
                                          2. Myths
                                            1. Goals have been met
                                              1. "We're already liberated" - postfeminism
                                              2. Negative connotations of 'feminist' and 'women's movement'
                                                1. Freedom of expression confused with freedom of equality
                                                  1. Women have freedom for fashion, hair, piercings, tattoos, etc. so people believe that makes them equal
                                                  2. Stereotypes
                                                    1. Angry, whiny, no sense of humor, exaggerative
                                                      1. Hate men; want power over men
                                                        1. Lesbians
                                                          1. Reject motherhood
                                                            1. White, middle class
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