Feminist Theory: Sept 26th by Sarah Goldbort https://padlet.com/sjgoldbo/718sm9fhpu5u7hcd en-us 2023-09-26 13:27:19 UTC 2023-09-26 15:43:59 UTC hello@padlet.com "But my daughter, when I told her of our topic and my difficulty with it, said, 'Tell them about how you're never really a whole person if you remain silent, because there's always that one little piece inside you that wants to be spoken out, and if you keep ignoring it, it gets madder and madder and hotter and hotter, and if you don't speak it out one day it will just up and punch you in the mouth from the inside.'" https://padlet.com/sjgoldbo/718sm9fhpu5u7hcd/wish/2721261959 2023-09-26 13:34:27 UTC https://padlet.com/sjgoldbo/718sm9fhpu5u7hcd/wish/2721261959 Introduction (pg. viii) https://padlet.com/sjgoldbo/718sm9fhpu5u7hcd/wish/2721263044 "They do not even think about feminism as being about rights - about women gaining equal rights. When I talk about the feminism I know - up close and personal- they willingly listen, although when our conversations end, they are quick to tell me I am different, not like the "real" feminists who hate men, who are angry. I assure them I am as a real and as radical a feminist as one can be, and if they dare to come closer to feminism they will see it is not how they have imagined it."]]> 2023-09-26 13:35:01 UTC https://padlet.com/sjgoldbo/718sm9fhpu5u7hcd/wish/2721263044 "But pornography is a direct denial of the power of the erotic, for it represents the suppression of true feeling. Pornography emphasizes sensation without feeling." https://padlet.com/sjgoldbo/718sm9fhpu5u7hcd/wish/2721263634 2023-09-26 13:35:20 UTC https://padlet.com/sjgoldbo/718sm9fhpu5u7hcd/wish/2721263634 https://padlet.com/sjgoldbo/718sm9fhpu5u7hcd/wish/2721264866 “without males as allies in struggle feminist movement will not progress. As it is we have to do so much work to correct the assumption deeply embedded in the cultural psyche that feminism is anti-male. Feminism is anti-sexism. A male who has divested of male privilege, who has embraced feminist politics, is a worthy comrade in struggle, in no way a threat to feminism, whereas a female who remains wedded to sexist thinking and behavior infiltrating feminist movement is a dangerous threat” (Hooks 12).]]> 2023-09-26 13:35:59 UTC https://padlet.com/sjgoldbo/718sm9fhpu5u7hcd/wish/2721264866 https://padlet.com/sjgoldbo/718sm9fhpu5u7hcd/wish/2721265194 Sexism is the problem that needs to be fixed -- not putting blame on any specific gender or person, but rather an institutionalized idea.]]> 2023-09-26 13:36:10 UTC https://padlet.com/sjgoldbo/718sm9fhpu5u7hcd/wish/2721265194 Feminism is for everyone. https://padlet.com/sjgoldbo/718sm9fhpu5u7hcd/wish/2721265921 Bell Hooks is writing about feminism in a very accessible way. She goes through main points that feminists are looking for, from the importance of abortion and contraceptives, the creation of gender studies in academia, and why it is important to be anti-sexism. ]]> 2023-09-26 13:36:32 UTC https://padlet.com/sjgoldbo/718sm9fhpu5u7hcd/wish/2721265921 https://padlet.com/sjgoldbo/718sm9fhpu5u7hcd/wish/2721266820 Feminism is not about hating men, it is about fighting sexism. It is also important to know that women can be sexist as well. There used to be consciousness-raising groups to help women become aware of this and change their thinking.]]> 2023-09-26 13:36:57 UTC https://padlet.com/sjgoldbo/718sm9fhpu5u7hcd/wish/2721266820 "The very word erotic comes from the Greek word eros, the personification of love in all its aspects - born of Chaos, and personifying creative power and harmony. When I speak of the erotic, then, I speak of it as an assertion of the life force of women..." https://padlet.com/sjgoldbo/718sm9fhpu5u7hcd/wish/2721267023 2023-09-26 13:37:02 UTC https://padlet.com/sjgoldbo/718sm9fhpu5u7hcd/wish/2721267023 https://padlet.com/sjgoldbo/718sm9fhpu5u7hcd/wish/2721267411 Feminism is for everyone, for all different types of women, and as many versions as there can be.]]> 2023-09-26 13:37:12 UTC https://padlet.com/sjgoldbo/718sm9fhpu5u7hcd/wish/2721267411 https://padlet.com/sjgoldbo/718sm9fhpu5u7hcd/wish/2721267926 what's interesting about hooks, is how she dedicates a chapters of how fashion could either work for or against women]]> 2023-09-26 13:37:27 UTC https://padlet.com/sjgoldbo/718sm9fhpu5u7hcd/wish/2721267926 our bodies, ourselves https://padlet.com/sjgoldbo/718sm9fhpu5u7hcd/wish/2721268269 "we were clear that there could be no genuine sexual liberation for women and men without better, safer contraceptives - without the right to a safe, legal abortion."]]> 2023-09-26 13:37:37 UTC https://padlet.com/sjgoldbo/718sm9fhpu5u7hcd/wish/2721268269 https://padlet.com/sjgoldbo/718sm9fhpu5u7hcd/wish/2721269071 "What are the tyrannies you swallow day by day and attempt to make your own, until you will sicken and die of them, still in silence?" (Lorde, 41)]]> 2023-09-26 13:38:00 UTC https://padlet.com/sjgoldbo/718sm9fhpu5u7hcd/wish/2721269071 cgng1 https://padlet.com/sjgoldbo/718sm9fhpu5u7hcd/wish/2721270676 "Given the reality of racism, it made sense that white men were more willing to consider women's rights when the granting of those rights could serve the interests of maintaining white supremacy. We can never forget that white women began to assert their need for freedom after civil rights, just at the point when racial discrimination was ending and black people, especially black males, might have attained equality in the workforce with white men." (Hooks 4)]]> 2023-09-26 13:38:49 UTC https://padlet.com/sjgoldbo/718sm9fhpu5u7hcd/wish/2721270676 That reformation feminism is different than revolutionary feminism (didn't know there were two types) https://padlet.com/sjgoldbo/718sm9fhpu5u7hcd/wish/2721270718 2023-09-26 13:38:50 UTC https://padlet.com/sjgoldbo/718sm9fhpu5u7hcd/wish/2721270718 https://padlet.com/sjgoldbo/718sm9fhpu5u7hcd/wish/2721270791 “Feminism is a movement to end sexism, sexist exploitation, and oppression. This was a definition of feminism I offered in feminist theory: from margin to center more than 10 years agi. It was my hope at the time that it would become a common definition everyone would use. I liked this definition because it did not imply that men were the enemy.”]]> 2023-09-26 13:38:52 UTC https://padlet.com/sjgoldbo/718sm9fhpu5u7hcd/wish/2721270791 https://padlet.com/sjgoldbo/718sm9fhpu5u7hcd/wish/2721271226 "feminism is a movement to end sexism, sexist exploitation, and oppression." ]]> 2023-09-26 13:39:02 UTC https://padlet.com/sjgoldbo/718sm9fhpu5u7hcd/wish/2721271226 https://padlet.com/sjgoldbo/718sm9fhpu5u7hcd/wish/2721271591 Silence prevents unity and therefore prevents action against oppressors ]]> 2023-09-26 13:39:13 UTC https://padlet.com/sjgoldbo/718sm9fhpu5u7hcd/wish/2721271591 No one can escape mortality, and staying silent will offer you no protection. Say the things you need to because death is inevitable. A life of repression would be in vain. https://padlet.com/sjgoldbo/718sm9fhpu5u7hcd/wish/2721272497 2023-09-26 13:39:38 UTC https://padlet.com/sjgoldbo/718sm9fhpu5u7hcd/wish/2721272497 What plans did revolutionary feminists have to get rid of sexism besides consciousness-raising? https://padlet.com/sjgoldbo/718sm9fhpu5u7hcd/wish/2721273120 2023-09-26 13:39:49 UTC https://padlet.com/sjgoldbo/718sm9fhpu5u7hcd/wish/2721273120 https://padlet.com/sjgoldbo/718sm9fhpu5u7hcd/wish/2721274197 Silence will not protect you and it will not keep things safe or change anything. In order to change society, you need to be heard.]]> 2023-09-26 13:40:18 UTC https://padlet.com/sjgoldbo/718sm9fhpu5u7hcd/wish/2721274197 "This is one reason why the erotic is so feared, and so often relegated to the bedroom alone, when it is recognized at all. For once we begin to feel deeply all the aspects of our lives, we begin to demand from ourselves and from our life-pursuits that they feel in accordance with that joy which we know ourselves to be capable of. " https://padlet.com/sjgoldbo/718sm9fhpu5u7hcd/wish/2721274233 2023-09-26 13:40:19 UTC https://padlet.com/sjgoldbo/718sm9fhpu5u7hcd/wish/2721274233 The focus of feminism is combatting sexism and the discrimination, or prejudice, of a person's sex. Its not fundamentally about being against men or viewing all men as the enemy https://padlet.com/sjgoldbo/718sm9fhpu5u7hcd/wish/2721274363 2023-09-26 13:40:23 UTC https://padlet.com/sjgoldbo/718sm9fhpu5u7hcd/wish/2721274363 https://padlet.com/sjgoldbo/718sm9fhpu5u7hcd/wish/2721274385 true freedom includes women having full control over their bodies- reproductive rights ]]> 2023-09-26 13:40:24 UTC https://padlet.com/sjgoldbo/718sm9fhpu5u7hcd/wish/2721274385 https://padlet.com/sjgoldbo/718sm9fhpu5u7hcd/wish/2721274629 Silence does not prevent fear from arising in you or society. There is no point in remaining silent because it does nothing.]]> 2023-09-26 13:40:31 UTC https://padlet.com/sjgoldbo/718sm9fhpu5u7hcd/wish/2721274629 "Without confronting internalized sexism women who picked up the feminist banner often betrayed the cause in their interactions with other women" (Hooks 11) https://padlet.com/sjgoldbo/718sm9fhpu5u7hcd/wish/2721276275 2023-09-26 13:41:20 UTC https://padlet.com/sjgoldbo/718sm9fhpu5u7hcd/wish/2721276275 Feminism is for everyone https://padlet.com/sjgoldbo/718sm9fhpu5u7hcd/wish/2721276281 Bell Hooks defines and gives the history of feminism and what brought upon the movement, she focuses on getting the idea out there that feminism is not an anti-male movement and is not put in place to be hateful but to advocate equality amongst the genders, an important idea she makes I feel is if men were educated early on about the true definition of feminism and sexism than the negative attitudes towards it would be less and there would even be more men partaking in feminism. ]]> 2023-09-26 13:41:20 UTC https://padlet.com/sjgoldbo/718sm9fhpu5u7hcd/wish/2721276281 "As long as women are using class or race power to dominate other women, feminist sisterhood cannot be fully realized" https://padlet.com/sjgoldbo/718sm9fhpu5u7hcd/wish/2721276309 2023-09-26 13:41:21 UTC https://padlet.com/sjgoldbo/718sm9fhpu5u7hcd/wish/2721276309 https://padlet.com/sjgoldbo/718sm9fhpu5u7hcd/wish/2721276353 "In the cause of silence, each of us draws the face of her own fear - fear of contempt, of censure, or some judgement, or recognition, of challenge, of annihilation. But most of all, I think, we fear the visibility without which we cannot truly live."]]> 2023-09-26 13:41:22 UTC https://padlet.com/sjgoldbo/718sm9fhpu5u7hcd/wish/2721276353 https://padlet.com/sjgoldbo/718sm9fhpu5u7hcd/wish/2721276701 Audre Lorde discusses not only the importance of making our voices heard, but curating spaces where everyone's voices are heard. (especially women and minorities). This is so we can have a variety of experiences. Women and minorities stories are often left out of history, deeming them to be unimportant. This can be combated through these spaces. ]]> 2023-09-26 13:41:29 UTC https://padlet.com/sjgoldbo/718sm9fhpu5u7hcd/wish/2721276701 The main idea here is that feminism has a history of differing expressions, and that feminism has different definitions or connotations. Moving forward it discusses how these topics can benefit society and move against the long-standing patriarchal ways. https://padlet.com/sjgoldbo/718sm9fhpu5u7hcd/wish/2721276892 2023-09-26 13:41:35 UTC https://padlet.com/sjgoldbo/718sm9fhpu5u7hcd/wish/2721276892 cgng1 https://padlet.com/sjgoldbo/718sm9fhpu5u7hcd/wish/2721277087 Feminism is for everybody and can be for everybody through what Hooks calls "Lifestyle Feminism". The idea that no matter your specific view on politics, you can still be a feminist no matter what. ]]> 2023-09-26 13:41:41 UTC https://padlet.com/sjgoldbo/718sm9fhpu5u7hcd/wish/2721277087 https://padlet.com/sjgoldbo/718sm9fhpu5u7hcd/wish/2721277181 Can her idea of the erotic be extended into a communal setting or is it strictly a one on one/internal relationship?]]> 2023-09-26 13:41:44 UTC https://padlet.com/sjgoldbo/718sm9fhpu5u7hcd/wish/2721277181 https://padlet.com/sjgoldbo/718sm9fhpu5u7hcd/wish/2721277297 bell hooks asserts that a lot of people are anti-feminist or not feminists because they have little to no knowledge about what feminism actually is. This reading is her attempt to make a sort of 'guide' to help people understand true feminism better]]> 2023-09-26 13:41:48 UTC https://padlet.com/sjgoldbo/718sm9fhpu5u7hcd/wish/2721277297 https://padlet.com/sjgoldbo/718sm9fhpu5u7hcd/wish/2721278237 The erotic is something powerful for women and should be used. However, it is seen as dangerous to those it does not benefit.]]> 2023-09-26 13:42:17 UTC https://padlet.com/sjgoldbo/718sm9fhpu5u7hcd/wish/2721278237 Most men find it difficult to be patriarchs. Most men are disturbed by hatred and fear of women, by male violence against women, even the men who perpetuate this violence. But they fear letting go of the benefits. They are not certain what will happen to the world they know most intimately if patriarchy changes. So they find it easier to passively support male domination even when they know in their minds and hearts that it is wrong. https://padlet.com/sjgoldbo/718sm9fhpu5u7hcd/wish/2721278688 2023-09-26 13:42:30 UTC https://padlet.com/sjgoldbo/718sm9fhpu5u7hcd/wish/2721278688 The erotic and pornographic are diametrically opposed. Pornography is "sensation without feeling" while eroticism is unbridled love and passion. To deny the erotic is to deny yourself of the strongest feelings https://padlet.com/sjgoldbo/718sm9fhpu5u7hcd/wish/2721278988 2023-09-26 13:42:39 UTC https://padlet.com/sjgoldbo/718sm9fhpu5u7hcd/wish/2721278988 https://padlet.com/sjgoldbo/718sm9fhpu5u7hcd/wish/2721279373 "Without the right to safe, inexpensive, and free abortions they lose all control over their bodies. If we return to a world where abortions are only accessible to those females with lots of money we risk the return of public policy that will aim to make abortion illegal."]]> 2023-09-26 13:42:52 UTC https://padlet.com/sjgoldbo/718sm9fhpu5u7hcd/wish/2721279373 "...for it is no difference which immobilizes us, but silence" (Lorde 44) https://padlet.com/sjgoldbo/718sm9fhpu5u7hcd/wish/2721279613 "My silences had not protected me. Your silence will not protect you" (Lorde 41)]]> 2023-09-26 13:43:00 UTC https://padlet.com/sjgoldbo/718sm9fhpu5u7hcd/wish/2721279613 https://padlet.com/sjgoldbo/718sm9fhpu5u7hcd/wish/2721279818 How would society look in a non-patriarchal system and how would that empower women?]]> 2023-09-26 13:43:07 UTC https://padlet.com/sjgoldbo/718sm9fhpu5u7hcd/wish/2721279818 https://padlet.com/sjgoldbo/718sm9fhpu5u7hcd/wish/2721281167 The erotic is something internal, felt through oneself that helps the connection to your inner self. it is important and creative and powerful.]]> 2023-09-26 13:43:47 UTC https://padlet.com/sjgoldbo/718sm9fhpu5u7hcd/wish/2721281167 Bell Hooks talks about the misconceptions of feminism. She addresses the idea that some people are not feminist because of this untrue view of feminism. Feminist can be all demographics of people with all different ideologies. https://padlet.com/sjgoldbo/718sm9fhpu5u7hcd/wish/2721282642 2023-09-26 13:44:31 UTC https://padlet.com/sjgoldbo/718sm9fhpu5u7hcd/wish/2721282642 "We have internal desires but outside controls." https://padlet.com/sjgoldbo/718sm9fhpu5u7hcd/wish/2721284566 2023-09-26 13:45:31 UTC https://padlet.com/sjgoldbo/718sm9fhpu5u7hcd/wish/2721284566 https://padlet.com/sjgoldbo/718sm9fhpu5u7hcd/wish/2721285069 "Feminist revolution alone will not create such a world; we need to end racism, class elitism, imperialism." (bell hooks, x)]]> 2023-09-26 13:45:48 UTC https://padlet.com/sjgoldbo/718sm9fhpu5u7hcd/wish/2721285069 Separation of erotic and spiritual https://padlet.com/sjgoldbo/718sm9fhpu5u7hcd/wish/2721289522 Audre Lorde discusses the differences between the power of the erotic in a spiritual sense and its wrongful comparison to the male-dominated views about eroticism basically being pornography, which is a misinterpretation. Pornography is expression without spirituality.]]> 2023-09-26 13:48:07 UTC https://padlet.com/sjgoldbo/718sm9fhpu5u7hcd/wish/2721289522 https://padlet.com/sjgoldbo/718sm9fhpu5u7hcd/wish/2721290761 one cannot be anti-choice and a feminist. these two ideals contradict one another; where feminism seeks to have control over one's own body, anti-choice takes decision away. ]]> 2023-09-26 13:48:48 UTC https://padlet.com/sjgoldbo/718sm9fhpu5u7hcd/wish/2721290761 https://padlet.com/sjgoldbo/718sm9fhpu5u7hcd/wish/2721297032 "The women who sustained me through that period were Black and white, old and young, lesbian, bisexual, and heterosexual, and we all shared a war against the tyrannies of silence. They all gave me a strength and concern without which I could not have survived intact. Within those weeks of acute fear came the knowledge - within the war we are all waging with the forces of death, subtle and otherwise, conscious or not -I am not only a casualty, I am also a warrior"]]> 2023-09-26 13:52:00 UTC https://padlet.com/sjgoldbo/718sm9fhpu5u7hcd/wish/2721297032 https://padlet.com/sjgoldbo/718sm9fhpu5u7hcd/wish/2721298751 "“I was going to die, if not sooner then later, whether or not I had ever spoken myself. My silences had not protected me. Your silence will not protect you. But for every real word spoken, for every attempt I had ever made to speak those truths for which I am still seeking, I had made contact with other women while we examined the words to fit a world in which we all believed, bridging our differences.”]]> 2023-09-26 13:52:55 UTC https://padlet.com/sjgoldbo/718sm9fhpu5u7hcd/wish/2721298751 https://padlet.com/sjgoldbo/718sm9fhpu5u7hcd/wish/2721301958 If someone remains silent about the harm and atrocities that occur, both to themselves and to the world, the only person who benefits is the oppressor, and the individual is not protected. They are still harmed. ]]> 2023-09-26 13:54:35 UTC https://padlet.com/sjgoldbo/718sm9fhpu5u7hcd/wish/2721301958 https://padlet.com/sjgoldbo/718sm9fhpu5u7hcd/wish/2721310184 "“In- stead I tend to hear all about the evil of feminism and the bad femi- nists: how "they" hate men; how "they" want to go against nature- and god; how "they" are all lesbians; how "they" are taking all the jobs and making the world hard for white men, who do not stand a chance.”]]> 2023-09-26 13:58:25 UTC https://padlet.com/sjgoldbo/718sm9fhpu5u7hcd/wish/2721310184 https://padlet.com/sjgoldbo/718sm9fhpu5u7hcd/wish/2721319650 How does Lorde's ideas on transforming silence into action connect to activist practice today? How does this connect to everyday activities? ]]> 2023-09-26 14:03:13 UTC https://padlet.com/sjgoldbo/718sm9fhpu5u7hcd/wish/2721319650