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Fem Theory Midterm
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Women's & Gender Studies
Undergraduate 4
03/06/2014

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Bunch

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Not By Degrees

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The Combahee River Collective

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A Black Feminist Statement

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Koyama

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Transfeminist Manifesto

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hooks

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Margin to Center

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Lorde

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The Master's Tools

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Reagon

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Coalition Politics

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Gluck

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Whose Feminism, Whose History?

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Sandoval

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US Third World Feminism

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Garland-Thompson

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Integrating Disability, Transforming Feminist Theory

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Bartky

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Foucault, Femininity, and Modernization

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Scott

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Deconstructing Equality-Versus-Difference

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Heyes

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Feminist Solidarity After Queer Theory: The Case of

 

Transgender

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Anzaldua

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The New Mestiza Nation: A Multicultural Movement

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Naber

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Transnational Anti-Imperialism and Middle East Women’s Studies

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Mohanty

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Under Western Eyes Revisited: Feminist Solidarity Through

 

Anticapitalist Struggle

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Combahee River Collective
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Feminism needs to address the many diverse ways of being a woman. Woman as a universal category is problematic.
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Whose, feminism, whose history?
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Critiquing the linear way feminism is taught - 1st/2nd/3rd wave doesn't include all narratives of all women(women of color)/mainly focuses on those of white, upperclass feminists
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Coalition Politics
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"barred rooms" - safe spaces for marginalized to meet//keep others out that are different. difference=discomfort, discomfort=activism/recognizing difference/finding solidarity through difference. Aim of coalition is to make these rooms no longer necessary.[needs citation]
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Transfeminist Manifesto
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Unity between feminism and transfeminism - focus on similarities and solidarity. Right over one's body.
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The Master's Tools
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The tools of oppression (heterosexism, cissexism, racism, ablism) can't be used to further rights of any oppressed group.
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Under Western Eyes: Revisited Feminist Solidarity through Anti-capitalist Stuggle
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Understanding the important impact of globalization on women, claiming feminist must be anti-globalizationists and anticapitalist, as it has a direct and negative affect on the lives of marganalized people.
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Foucault, Femininity, and Modernisation
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Docile body - women's bodies are controlled to produce a "desired" result. Enforced by using surveillance and punishment. connected to standards of femininity, panopitcon idology (someone is always watching), therefore women are policing themselves into feminitiy.
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Deconstructing Equality vs. Difference
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Defines the idea of equality as a problematic goal of feminism (Sears case) and equity as a less problematic activist goal. Equity being equality with the understanding of difference. Example: People of color discriminated against in education, now we have affirmative action.
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The New Mestiza Nation: A Multicultural Movement
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Mestiza=term to unite diverse groups of people and break down labels, "both/and"= to both recognize the unity that comes from being oppressed and the differences of each individual struggle - critique of academia especially, the language we use, the histories that are taught, the intellectual borders that are created in academia.
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