Dr. Sara DiazWGST 202: Gender, Difference, and PowerGonzaga University

Global Women’s Movements

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POEMS

Response QuestionResponse Question

• Describe some of the ways women have organized to resist globalization and environmental destruction?

Discussion QuestionsDiscussion Questions

• Acording to Antrubus what defines global women’s movements?• Political• Social Conditions• Process/Evolution• Rejection of Patriarchal Privilege• Conciousness of Separateness

• Are women’s movements feminist?• What’s the difference between “international”

and “global”?

Global Women’s Movement• Methods• Conscientization (Consciousness Raising)• Connecting local to global• Networking• Connecting personal to political

• Resources• Centers• Media

• Radio• Presses• Websites• Artists/Musicians• Funds/Foundations

• Spiral, Wheel, Pyramid, Web, Quilt• How are these symbols useful to movements?

Feminism and Islam

• In 7th Century Islamic law (sharia) granted women property rights and divorce• Earlier than perhaps any other culture.

•When British Colonial Law was imposed, many women in the Islamic world lost these rights.

Feminism and Islam

• The British also imposed Western standards of dress• Veiling -> resisting colonization.

• Westerners saw Islam as backward and anti-modern• (Western) Feminism seen as modern, western• Post-colonial societies resisted

westernization/colonization.• Thus the current status of women in the Islamic

world is directly related to colonialism .. Not necessarily Islam.

Colonial Feminism

• How has “feminism” been use to justify colonization and war?

• What does Abu-Lughod mean by Colonial Feminism?

• Do muslim women need saving?• What are the consequences for muslim when

non muslim women become fixated on the veil as a symbol of oppression?

Avoiding the Savior Complex

• How can feminists in the West avoid our “Savior Complex”?

Artivistas• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-AA_1TVHKI

Reminder• Unit 3 Journal due next Monday• No class next Wednesday or Friday• There are Daily Responses DUE!!!!• Watch films and read!• A short interlude into women in relation to media

representations before we move on to our unit on violence