Three Guineas- Wolf
-Class probelm- women/daughters of rich men- upper class women are the weakest class-she repeats argue she presents by excluding lower class women
Woolfs Outsider Society- no gov, womens education, equality, uncertainty/there isnt language
Butler
-What is a women, we aren't all women because we don't follow it all
-Laws/the system won't save you
-Problem/Soln not possible
-We have to subvert launguage even
-We need to be post feminist
-Gender is not a being, but becoming, not an act
The Potential to be Queer
Duggan's Making it Perfectly Queer [here]
Warner's Introduction to Fear of a Queer Planet click here
-Language actually is an act, you've done it when you speak it- gender performance
The Five Sexes, Revisited - Fausto Sterling: acknowleging intesexuality as part of our society, five sex system, not every person is born male or female and we can't ignore this
To Be or Not to Be- Feinberg: transgender issues
What Does Angels in America perform?
-conflict, doubt, guilt, abandonment, humanity, loss in relationships, illness, mortality, religion, questioning faith, magical, delusions, imagination, plague
Octavia Butler
Bloodchild
-Gender duty, siblings (gan and xua) consent, male pregnancy, coming of age, symbolic, family structure, slavery, agency
The Evening The Morning and The Night
-Discrimination, reproductive rights, health care systems/prison systems, entrapment, what constitutes humanity, free will, love, doubt, childrens responsibility to take care of paretns
Speech Sounds
-Intuition, communications, jealousy, violence, sexual violence, trust, hope
HillCollin's Feminist Thought
"aims to empower African American women within the context of social justice sustained by intersecting oppressions.
-addresses historical practices of oppression in work, housing, education, politics, and daily social interactions
"US black women as a group live in a different world from that of people who are not black and female"
-lived experiences, action/activism
-Black feminist thought is heterogeneous
-We can come together across lines of difference
Afrofuturism
-George Clinton and Parliament/Funkadelic/ 1970s and 80s
-A fantasy, Afrocentric aesthetic movement that includes literature, visual arts and music
-grace jones, critic
Black Feminist Thought:
1960s
Audre Lorde- afrocentric movement, carribean immigrant parents, mixed mother who passed as white
June Jordan- journalist, bisexual
Alic Walker- the color purple, activist, scholar, first legal interracial marriage, womanism instead of feminism
Angela Davis- marxist feminist, radical, allegedly bought a gun for a black panther- on FBI's most wanted
bell hooks (Gloria Watkins)- post modern feminist