Politics, Power and Resistance Week 11: Citizenship and Inequality I - Gender and Sexuality
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Politics, Power & Resistance Week 11: Citizenship & Inequality III:Gender & Sexuality A/Prof Alana Lentin [email protected]
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In Australia, as in other ‘western’ countries, we are said to live in a post-feminist society in which women have achieved equality with men. As we saw in Week 6, the finger is pointed at Middle Eastern countries and Muslim minorities as being fundamentally misogynistic and anti-equality. However, in Australia, women still earn 70% of what men doing the same job do. Feminist theorists have put forward different perspectives on how to redress inequality. While liberal feminism focuses on equal work for equal pay, ‘radical’ feminists have accused them of being too concerned with merely including women in a man’s world. Standpoint theorists have argued that women must be treated equally but differently due to their specific needs. Those concerned with deconstructing the categories of sex and gender have argued that both viewpoints essentialise women according to their biology. They argue for gender to be seen as a social construct. Black and minority world feminists have made the case that the focus on women as a universal category ignores the ways in which women are treated differently according to their race, sexuality, class and ability. The question remains of how best to ensure equality between men and women.
Transcript of Politics, Power and Resistance Week 11: Citizenship and Inequality I - Gender and Sexuality
Politics, Power & Resistance
Week 11:Citizenship & Inequality III:Gender & Sexuality A/Prof Alana Lentin
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)
