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Feminism

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belief in social, political and economic equality of the sexes; the movement organized around this belief (American Heritage Dictionary as quoted by Valenti)

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Jessica Valenti

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The worst thing you can call anyone is a girl
belief in social, political and economic equality of the sexes; the movement organized around this belief (American Heritage Dictionary as quoted by Valenti)

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bell hooks

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Feminism – a movement to end sexism, sexual exploitation剥削, and oppression

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olympe de gouge

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1791 Declaration des Droits de la Femme et de la Citoyenne
Full and equal rights for women under law, within marriage and in society at large, including right to vote and to serve as legislators and magistrates地方行政官. Her argument was that if women and men could be guillotined截止辩论以表决法 on an equal basis, then they could live on one also.. The French assemble responded by banning women’s clubs and she, a play write was sent to the gallows in Nov 1973.
A report in a French journal stated “ “the law has punished this conspirator for having forgotten the virtues that belong to her sex.”

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Mary wollstoneCraft

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A Vindication of the Rights of Women (1792)
(1792), in which she argues that women are not naturally inferior to men, but appear to be only because they lack education. She suggests that both men and women should be treated as rational beings and imagines a social order founded on reason.
Her advocacy of women’s equality and critiques of conventional femininity became increasingly important. Today Wollstonecraft is regarded as one of the founding feminist philosophers, and feminists often cite both her life and work as important influences.

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4 myths about feminism & why accurate?

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  1. Many feminists do react to injustice with anger –constructive anger is a fuel and map that shows where you have been, where you need to go, and where you don’t want to go back to.
    As much as there may be anger, there is patient, determined effort toward positive change.
  2. Feminists hate men, want to have power over men or want to be like men. .. .
    How is this NOT accurate – in general
  3. Feminism is an elitist, white, middle class movement that ignores attempts to create social and economic change and discourages cooperation. . .
    4.Wholesale rejection of the burden of children, motherhood and all things feminine. . .
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Estelle Freedman. “No turning Back”
“Feminism is a belief that women and men are inherently of equal worth. Because most societies privilege men as a group, social movements are necessary to achieve equality between women and men, with the understanding that gender always intersects with other social hierarchies.”

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All genders have equal worth
Male privilege is the foundation of patriarchy of a system
Social movement
Intersecting hierarchies of oppression

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THERE IS NO UNIVERSAL EXPERIENCE OF “WOMAN” Why?_______________
–WE ALSO CAN NOT DENY THAT_______%OF THOSE LIVING IN POVERTY AND TWO THIRDS OF THE WORLD’S ILLITERATE ARE FEMALE.

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NO, – DUE TO HISTORICAL, SOCIAL, NATIONAL AND PERSONAL DIFFERENCES, WE CAN NOT PRESUME SISTERHOOD , 70%

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Define a movement from Freedman

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Rise of capitalism disrupted reciprocal relationships in families in ways that initially enhanced men’s economic opportunities and defined women as dependents

New democratic theories about individual rights and representative government extended privilege to men only

Feminist movements around the world named the injustice of the disparities , insisted on the value of women’s economic contributions and the justice of political rights for women

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Origins of feminist politics after 1800 in Europe and America

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capitalism
Industrial growth
Democratic theory
Socialist critiques