Gender: Indigenous Feminism
Tutorial 12: Feminism-Perspectives
Feminism has served women well and will continue to play an important role in bringing about gender equality in the future.
Proposition: Yes, feminism(s) has served women’s interest and will continue to play an important role in bringing about gender equality.
Opposition: No feminism(s) has NOT served women’s interest and is limited in its role in bringing about gender equality.
Required readings:
Ostrov, Susan and Jennifer Fleischner (eds). “Introduction” pages 1-17 in Feminist nightmares: women at odds: feminism and the problem of sisterhood / edited by Susan Ostrov Weisser and Boulder, Colo.: NetLibrary, Inc., [electronic resource] 2000.
Green, Joyce. 2007. “Taking Account of Indigenous Feminism”, chapter 1 in Making space for indigenous feminism / edited by Joyce Green. Black Point, N.S. : Fernwood Pub. ; London ; New York : Zed Books. Book on 1-day reserve at AV Library 305.42 M23 G79.
Suggested readings: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feminism: for a short history of feminism
Truth, Sojourner. 1851. “Ain’t I a Woman?” http://afgen.com/sojourner1.html.
Wee, Vivienne and Farida Shaheed. 2007. “Indigenous feminisms: resistance to culturally embedded patriarchies”. Paper presented at the Conference on ‘Reclaiming Feminism: Gender and Neo-liberalism’,
9-10 July 2007, Brighton, Sussex, organised by the
Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, with the University of London, Birbeck.
Smith, Andrea “Indigenous Feminism Without Apology” in New Socialist, Issue 58 (October 2006) http://newsocialist.org/newsite/index.php?id=1013
Donovan, Josephine. Feminist theory: the intellectual traditions of American feminism. New York : Continuum, 2006. EDITION 3rd ed. [electronic resource] NetLibrary. “Preface to Third Edition”, Chapter 7, “The Moral Vision of Twentieth Century Cultural Feminism”, and Chapter 8, “Into the Twenty-first Century”.
Brasfield, Rebecca. 2011. “Rereading Sex and the City: Exposing
Feminism has served women well and will continue to play an important role in bringing about gender equality in the future.
Proposition: Yes, feminism(s) has served women’s interest and will continue to play an important role in bringing about gender equality.
Opposition: No feminism(s) has NOT served women’s interest and is limited in its role in bringing about gender equality.
Required readings:
Ostrov, Susan and Jennifer Fleischner (eds). “Introduction” pages 1-17 in Feminist nightmares: women at odds: feminism and the problem of sisterhood / edited by Susan Ostrov Weisser and Boulder, Colo.: NetLibrary, Inc., [electronic resource] 2000.
Green, Joyce. 2007. “Taking Account of Indigenous Feminism”, chapter 1 in Making space for indigenous feminism / edited by Joyce Green. Black Point, N.S. : Fernwood Pub. ; London ; New York : Zed Books. Book on 1-day reserve at AV Library 305.42 M23 G79.
Suggested readings: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feminism: for a short history of feminism
Truth, Sojourner. 1851. “Ain’t I a Woman?” http://afgen.com/sojourner1.html.
Wee, Vivienne and Farida Shaheed. 2007. “Indigenous feminisms: resistance to culturally embedded patriarchies”. Paper presented at the Conference on ‘Reclaiming Feminism: Gender and Neo-liberalism’,
9-10 July 2007, Brighton, Sussex, organised by the
Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, with the University of London, Birbeck.
Smith, Andrea “Indigenous Feminism Without Apology” in New Socialist, Issue 58 (October 2006) http://newsocialist.org/newsite/index.php?id=1013
Donovan, Josephine. Feminist theory: the intellectual traditions of American feminism. New York : Continuum, 2006. EDITION 3rd ed. [electronic resource] NetLibrary. “Preface to Third Edition”, Chapter 7, “The Moral Vision of Twentieth Century Cultural Feminism”, and Chapter 8, “Into the Twenty-first Century”.
Brasfield, Rebecca. 2011. “Rereading Sex and the City: Exposing