feminism

Sarah Kaufman
Critical Feminist Studies Second Midterm

Man as Comrade vs. Enemy: Is a Proletarian Feminist Superior to a Capitalist One?

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Sarah Sherman

10/05/08

Intro to Critical Feminist Studies

Professor Anne Dalke

How Should a Feminist Vote in this Election?

(Including bitter Hillary supporters)

Everyone has their own definition of feminism. Personally, I believe feminism is equality for women. I believe that women should have the same rights as men and that they shouldn't be discriminated against for being female.

Questions: What is gender? What is the importance of gender? Is it useful? Does it hinder people? What does this say about feminism?

When I Grow Up… (please read attached files)

 

 

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Why a“Gynecological Twin” Could Mean 2008 Steps Backwards for Feminism

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Dawn Hathaway

October 3, 2008

Critical Feminist Studies: An Introduction

Professor Anne Dalke

Is Middlesex an Appropriate Queer Studies Text?

It has often been the goal of feminist organizations to protect and defend women. Recently, the “stop violence against women” movement gained popular attention. Such a movement is, taken at face value, hard to oppose. However, while any attempt to reduce violence is to be applauded, does this campaign not in some ways reinforce the notion that being female is somehow a disability? Does it not imply that women are weaker and therefore in need of special protection? Is stopping violence against men not an equally worthy cause? Rosemarie Garland-Thompson writes that “Indeed, equating femaleness with disability is common, sometimes to denigrate women and sometimes to defend them.” Efforts to classify women as

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