Politics, Power & Resistance

Week 11:Citizenship & Inequality III:Gender & Sexuality A/Prof Alana Lentin

a.lentin@uws.edu.au

Overview

Gender and Inequality

The feminist movement

Sameness vs. difference

Contemporary issues in feminism

How to be intersectional

Gender & Inequality

The gender pay gap

Childcare

Domestic labour

LGBT rights

Femicide!Child marriage!

FGM!No Education!

Illegality!!

Violence and rape!Gender pay gap!!

Marriage inequality !!

Domestic/care work!

Evolving Feminisms

First Wave FeminismSecond Wave Feminism

Third Wave Feminism

Feminism & Citizenship

Rights versus obligations

Individual & political

Sameness vs. Difference

Just as good

A Different Voice?

‘We’re here, we’re queer’

Contemporary issues in feminism

Post-feminism?

21st century feminism

Imperialist feminism

How to be intersectional?Consider an analogy to traffic in an intersection, coming and going in all four directions […} If an accident happens in an intersection, it can be caused by cars traveling from any number of directions and, sometimes, from all of them. Similarly, if a Black woman is harmed because she is in an intersection, her injury could result from sex discrimination or race discrimination […] But it is not always easy to reconstruct an accident: Sometimes the skid marks and the injuries simply indicate that they occurred simultaneously, frustrating efforts to determine which driver caused the harm.

Kimberlé Crenshaw (1989. P149)