WGS 101 2006

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WGS 1012006

• Introduction

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Age of Reason Right of Men!
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A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792)
Mary Wollstonecraft
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In colonial America

• Women were excluded from
• higher education
• profitable employment
• the trades and commerce
• the pulpit
• the professions
• the vote
• deprived of their property rights
• denied guardianship of their children

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Suffragists
First Wave
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Simone de Beauvoir (50s)
one is not born, but becomes a woman
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Second Wave
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Example The Airline Industry
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• Political activism, harassment laws enacted
  (anti-stalking),
• womens studies and womens history classes
  instituted,
• consciousness-raising groups, Title 9 (equal
  funding for girls in sports),
• shelters for battered women/domestic and sexual
  abuse awareness,
• womens dress codes relaxed, the Pill/ birth
  control/sexual revolution
• 1973 Roe v. Wade, medical options for women
  expanded, shift towards equal pay for equal work,
  maternal and working women changes in attitudes,
  family expectations altered family leave, etc.,
  more women in the professions, more childcare
  options, option to NOT have children, more women
  with political power/government jobs, rape shield
  laws/marital exemptions in some states womens
  spirituality/Goddess worship, gender studies
  about girls, (few) changes in advertising
  (debatable) media? , elimination/recognition of
  sexist language, debates about pornography/prostit
  ution, more open views about womens sexuality,
  lesbians more accepted, organization of the
  lesbian community, funding for womens research,
  divorce rates increased child support laws
  changing, welfare laws - women have to work good
  or bad? ,more women in the military, womens
  empowerment!

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Third Wave
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The F Word
Theory
Movement
GENDER
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Feminism sees gender central to the organization
of society

• Feminism leans on a sociological understanding of
  gender difference more than a biological one.

one is not born, but becomes a woman
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• Aggressive Passive
• Independent dependent
• Stoic emotional
• Objective subjective
• Dominant submissive
• Logical illogical
• Adventurous timid
• Protective nurturant

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Doing Gender
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Backlash

• Feminism is encourages women to leave their
  husbands, kill their children, practice
  witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become
  lesbians.  Pat Robertson

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I am not a Feminist but
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• I myself have never been able to find out
  precisely what feminism is  I only know that
  people call me a feminist whenever I express
  sentiments that differentiate me from a
  doormat.  Rebecca West, 1913