Intro to Feminist and Social Justice Studies Podcast
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Welcome to Introduction to Feminist and Social Justice Studies. This is the fifth audio episode of the semester-long course for the Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist, and Social Justice Studies program at McGill University, taking place in the Fall of 2021.
The transcript is available here: https://introtofeministstudies.blogspot.com/2020/07/episode-5-second-and-third-waves-and.html
In the last lecture episode, we talked about American and Canadian feminist movements in the 19th and early 20th century. One of the major themes in that lecture was around the tensions within the category of “woman.” As we discussed, one of the problems with the feminist wave metaphor is that so much of it is built around white women’s histories and experiences with feminist activism. Critiques of treating middle and upper class white women’s experiences as universal occurred in the 19th and early 20th century. We will continue to see these critiques in the lecture today and throughout this course.
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