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What is feminism? -is advocating women's rights is disturbing certainties of patriarchal structure is transforming society by eradicating sexist domination is sustaining poststructuralist and postmodern thinking is working and reading "against the grain" Early proto-feminism -Sappho in ancient...

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Feminism 9 ALREADY PASSED
What is feminism? -✔✔✔is advocating women's rights

is disturbing certainties of patriarchal structure

is transforming society by eradicating sexist domination

is sustaining poststructuralist and postmodern thinking

is working and reading "against the grain"



Early proto-feminism -✔✔✔Sappho in ancient Greece (570bc)

Hildegard of Bingen - medieval, 1179

Christine de Pisan 1434

Olympe de Gouge 1791

Mary Wollstonecraft 1797

Jane Austen 1817



Sappho -✔✔✔(570 bc)Lyric poetry, most lost, except Ode to Aphrodite and the Tithonus poem



Christine de Pisan -✔✔✔1434

A Venetian-born woman of the medieval era who strongly challenged misogyny and stereotypes
prevalent in the male-dominated realm of the arts.



Olympe de Gouges -✔✔✔1791

A proponent of democracy, she demanded the same rights for French women that French men were
demanding for themselves. In her Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen (1791),
she challenged the practice of male authority and the notion of male-female inequality. She lost her life
to the guillotine due to her revolutionary ideas.

, Mary Wollstonecraft -✔✔✔British feminist of the eighteenth century who argued for women's
equality with men, even in voting, in her 1792 "Vindication of the Rights of Women."



Jane Austen -✔✔✔1817

Sense and Sensibility

Emma

Pride and Prejudice



Difference French and Anglo-American feminism -✔✔✔Anglo-American: pragmatic, focused on new
ways of reading literary texts, establishing feminism as a distinct academic discipline, examining the
intersection of gender and race (USA)

French: a theoretical revolution under the influence of Derrida and Foucault and the 1968 May revolts in
Paris, anthology New French Feminisms (1981), interest in psychoanalysis and deconstructing
oppositional binaries.



Essentialist thinking -✔✔✔is the belief that familiar categories (dogs & cats, space&time,
emotion&thought) each have an underlying essence that makes them what they are.

This belief is a key barrier to scientific understanding & progress



Essentialism -✔✔✔the view that living things have an essence inside them that makes them what they
are



First Wave Feminism -✔✔✔(1850s)late 19th, early 20th.c,

Victorian feminism (education, employment)

JohnStuartMill,TheSubjectionofWomen(1869)

temperance and anti-slavery activism; voting rights campaigns/suffrage

Right to vote; right to divorce; right to property

Xprivilegingwhitemiddle-classwomen

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