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"Black Feminism at 21"
Barbara Ramsby

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· Strongest ideological tenets around which black feminists have organized are notions that gender, class, race, and sexuality are codependent variables that cannot readily be separated and ranked in scholarship, in political practice, or lived experience
· Because any political agenda that addresses the realities of most African-American women's lives must deal with the four major systems of oppression and exploitation -- race, class, gender, and sexuality -- black feminist politics radically breaks down the notion of mutually exclusive, competing identities and interests and instead understands identities and political process as fluid, interdependent, dynamic, and historical
· Black feminist practice has evolved, not so much reinventing itself as building on the foundational vision, of an inclusive, multi-issue political agenda built on fluid democratic practice

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"Just Sex..."
Judi Gold and Susan Villari

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new sexual revolution; rejecting forced sex as rite of passage
campus movement since 1980s

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"Manifesta"
Jennifer Baumgardner and Amy Richards

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· Need next generation to pick up reins and lead 3rd wave of feminism
– Clearly articulate political goals/declaration of sentiments in order to get response from government
· Activists can work within system, e.g. lobbying Congress, voting, monitoring a government agency
· Work outside system - create NGOs, grassroots groups, boycotts and protests, individual and agitprop-esque
· Activism can be as common and short-term as saying "that's not funny" or no to the boss who only asks girls in the office to make coffee, or calling a senator
· Activism is everyday acts of defiance

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"Staging Activism"
Amy Jo Goddard

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Artists/performers create political work in artistic environment, revealing multiplicities identities and exploring and giving voice to racial, national, class, gender, and sexual identities that are not the dominant norm in the U.S.

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"Gender Aspects on Climate Change"

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Women more affected by climate change and natural disasters because of social roles, discrimination and poverty

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"Katrina, Black Women, and the Deadly Discourse on Black Poverty in America"
Barbara Ramsby

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· Victims of Hurricane Katrina who had to stay in city and for who few resources were provided in critical days after hurricane were disproportionately poor, black, and women
· As in any crisis, those with few assets, little money, and even less maneuverability were hard-pressed to get out of the path of the storm and further compromised in their ability to recover from the blow

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"Women are Opening Doors: Security Council Resolution 1325 in Afghanistan"
Felicity Hill and Mikele Aboitiz

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· Women's voices needed not only at negotiating tables but also in the larger political institutions that generate and dictate security policy
· Resolution 1325 provides a tool for women because it requires gender sensitivity in all UN missions including peacekeeping, women's equal participation at all negotiating tables, and the protection of women and girls during armed conflict

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3rd wave feminism

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-embraces multiculturalism -- contradiction and conflict, and accommodates diversity and change -- no single feminist idea
-emphasizes the necessity of collaboration across boundaries
-challenging multiple interlocking systems of oppression
-AIDS as a feminist issue
-issues central to 3rd wave -- acquaintance rape, campus organizing, new technology

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2nd wave feminism
1960s-1970s

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-Agitating for right to higher education, equal pay, right to rise in corporate organizations

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gender identity

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psychological sense of self

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gender expression

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the communication and expression of gender

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sexual orientation

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romantic/erotic response

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Kimberley Williams Crenshaw

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theory of intersectionality
multiple ways in which race, class, age, gender, sexuality and ability impact the agency of women in society
exoticization of non-white women (romanticizing elements of something that is foreign)

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Judith Lorber

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social construction of gender

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Judith Butler

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performativity theory of gender

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Naomi Wolf

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beauty myth
traditional ideas about beauty are used as a political weapon for women's claims for equality

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micro level forces that contribute to feminization of poverty

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-gendered relations of power within the family
-higher fertility rates
-restrictions on women's participation in formal labor sector
-second shift

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some overarching differences b/t 2nd and 3rd wave feminism

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-2nd wave existed alongside general civil rights movement -- some tension
-2nd wave was generally more representative of white women's rights
-for many 2nd wave feminist, hetero women did not like homosexual feminists
-"lavender menace" -- betty friedan
-class issue: 2nd wave represented middle class women, not poor and working class

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since when is marriage a path to liberation

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paula ettelbrick

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why we're not getting married

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ackelsberg and plaskow

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a marriage agreement

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shulman