Wednesday, March 24, 2010

GRADES

First is your student ID, then your points and finally your percentage.

The total possible is out of 600. Rounding up will be done if you have attendance points. Have a great break!

CWID
11232012 402 0.67
11290899 560 0.933333333
11347867 482 0.803333333
11336143 587 0.978333333
11344559 482 0.803333333
11280865 170 0.283333333
11293372 494 0.823333333
11341067 507 0.845
11341608 570 0.95
11372619 469 0.781666667
11289381 493 0.821666667
11215448 552 0.92
11365442 559 0.931666667
11213138 578 0.963333333
11184119 529 0.881666667
MD 0
11362632 456 0.76
11346944 429 0.715
11334207 463 0.771666667
10341072 395 0.877777778
11160056 436 0.726666667
11275568 491 0.818333333
11294690 542 0.903333333
H.J 474 0.79
11312722 455 0.758333333
11187145 574 0.956666667
11347909 524 0.873333333
11326725 489 0.815
11347475 542 0.903333333
11363957 574 0.956666667
11339645 422 0.703333333
11357793 368 0.817777778
11266487 446 0.743333333
11339957 379 0.631666667
11360978 444 0.74
A. V. 475 0.791666667
11298037 503 0.838333333

Monday, March 22, 2010

Grades

Grades for the Final and Midterm 2 and for the class will be up tomorrow.

Thursday, March 18, 2010

Grades

No changes in grades yet

Tuesday, March 16, 2010

Quiz 9 & 10 as HW

Women H9 Quiz 9
1. Even before the advent of the flapper, weight issues were in the minds of American women.
2. The slenderized female was picked up from the French.
3. Anorexia is caused by internal and external factors.
4. In the 1930s drought plagued the U.S. from Virginia to Arkansas.
5. Specialization in working conditions isolated individuals.

6. In the 1950s women in American media worked outside of the home.
7. Working class women were unaffected by The Feminine Mystique.
8. Concepts of “femininity” are the same for white and black women.
9. Welfare kept families together.
10. Black women were not part of the Civil Rights movement.
Women H9 Quiz 10
1. Betty Friedman stated that women had not a “single fight left to fight.”
2. The emergence of the pill left women half of their lives not taken up by the drive of their biology.
3. The Civil Rights Bill did not include laws for equality of sexes.
4. Some NOW members considered abortion too controversial to take on.
5. Intitially there was only one Women ‘s Liberation Group.

6. By 1970 CR groups had become “the heart and soul of the women’s liberation movement.”
7. Feminists wanted the choices to be limited.
8. Feminists wanted women to have a yes/no choice in sex and if yes to have pleasure in the act.
9. Minority women were a huge part of the early women’s movement.
10. Because there are different feminists groups, there is room for all women.

Sunday, March 14, 2010

Here are the COMPLETE grades up to this point in the class. The total so far in the class is 315.
This includes all points (including the blog points and attendence extra credit). The only remaining points left which aren not included in the total of 315, are:
15 points for class work (which will be done during Final Projects), 20 pts for Quiz 9 & 10, 100 points for Final Project, and 150 points for the midterm.



CWID
11232012 192
11290899 330
11347867 245
11336143 320
11344559 267
11280865 75
11293372 272
11341067 254
11341608 275
11372619 213
11289381 271
11215448 312
11365442 302
10545877 75
11213138 321
11184119 298
11362632 209
11346944 204
11334207 233
10341072 239
11160056 211
11275568 237
11294690 305
247
11312722 236
11187145 302
11347909 260
11326725 250
11252146 19
11288158 225
11347475 303
11363957 316
11339645 201
11357793 275
11266487 226
11339957 184
11360978 226
241
11298037 282

DISCUSSION ON WEDNESDAY

There will be a discussion based on the blog article about dating and the Kerber article on pg. 390 (after presentations).

Bring your text and a copy of the article to class!

Modern Feminism PP Notes

Feminism and Theories of Empowerment

Gloria Steinman
History
Feminism and other empowerment oriented approaches grew out of the antiwar and civil rights movements of the 1960s and early 1970s.
These movements demonstrated that dedicated individuals, acting together, in a generally non-violent way could change public attitudes significantly and thus change public policy.

Dolores Huerta

What began as the Women’s Movement developed quickly into a number of theoretical perspectives and methods of analysis for the understanding of human behavior.
Feminism is not one thing but a number of different perspectives that share a common set of postulates.

Betty Friedman
Clinical Illustration
The Self-In-Relationship approach was largely used to inform the notion of “codependency”.
– Defining one’s self as independent, assertive, aggressive, and separate – like a man – is good.
– Defining one’s self as interdependent, connected to other, and empathic -- like a woman – is bad.


“Although the codependency construct is popular, it has been poorly defined, lacks empirical research, is culturally determined, and is used primarily in a discriminatory way to pathologize women’s gender-specific behavior”
– Logan, TK; Walker, J.R.; Cole, J.; Leukefeld, C.G. (2002).
Feminism Family Tree
Liberal Feminism
• Earliest perspective and most often popularly
identified with feminism as a whole.
• Men and women are the same because both
have capacity for reason.
• Disparities are based on culture not on ability.
• Women need and deserve access to all that
men have and have access to.
• What is needed is a level playing field where
men and women can compete based on ability
and merit.

• Classic Liberal Feminism
– Government should protect everyone’s civil
liberties.
– Government should insure equal opportunities
for all people.
• Welfare Liberal Feminism
– Government should regulate the marketplace
to improve opportunities for women.
– Government should ensure mechanisms to
redress past injustice against women.
Radical Feminism
• Began as a reaction to the male centered civil
rights movement.
• Sexism is oppression and it is woven into the
fabric of society.
• “The personal is political.”
• A radical change in society is necessary to end
oppression of women.
• Advocates for public provision of child care and
an end to marriage or, at least, the privileged
status of marriage.
Cultural Feminism
• Grew out of and is a reaction to Radical
Feminism.
• Men and women are different.
• There are different ways of knowing and
understanding.
• Difference should be cultivated and valued.
• Relationships among women should be
encouraged and cultivated to develop and
enhance a culture of women.

• Innate Cultural Feminism
– The differences between men and women as regards
world view, ways of knowing, and valuing are inborn
and genetic in origin.
– Men and women can never fully understand each
other.
• Conditioned Cultural Feminism
– The differences between men and women as regards
world view, ways of knowing, and valuing are largely,
if not entirely, socially learned.
– With effort, men and women can understand and
value each others perspectives.

Sally Ride
Socialist Feminism
• Earlier feminist approaches focused primarily on
the personal and psychological effects of
patriarchy Socialist Feminism focused on the
social and economic effects.
• Capitalism is a system developed out of
patriarchy.
• Women are treated as an underclass whose
labor is exploited to make life easier for men.
• Homemaking and child rearing should be seen
as societal and not parental responsibilities.
Lesbian Feminism
• A challenge to sexism and heterosexism.
• Heterosexism is an outgrowth of patriarchy,
people should not be privileged or discriminated
against because of who they choose to be
intimate with.
• All hierarchy serves patriarchy.
• Women are taught to look to men to tell them
how to be women.
• Women should look to women to define
themselves: “woman-identified woman.”
• Women should abandon care taking of men.

Condoleezza Rice
Womanism
• Arose as a reaction to the perception that
feminism was dominated by upper middle
class white women who did not appreciate
the situation of women of color.
• Women have multiple identities: gender,
race, class.
• All of these identities have to be taken into
account in the work of liberation.

• The identity of women of color is fragmented and much
like that of colonized people.
• Activism is primary and should not be sacrificed to prove
some abstract theoretical point.
• Psychotherapeutic Decolonization
– Recognize the systematic and societal process of colonization
and oppression and so become aware of the colonized
mentality.
– Correct cognitive errors that reinforce a colonized mentality.
– Assert and affirm racial and gender identity, developing a more
integrated identity.
– Increase self-mastery and achieve autonomous dignity.
– Work toward transforming oneself and the colonized condition.

Ursula Burns – The 1st Black Female CEO of a Fortune 500 Company

Postmodern Feminism
• Emphasis on socially constructed meaning defining
one’s identity.
• “Gender”, “class”, “race” are all constructs that are
reductionistic and lead to only a superficial
understanding of the human experience.
• Recognizing the diversity of experience is critical.
• Until men and women can move beyond such constructs
they will never be free to be fully themselves.
• Anti-theoretical bias.
• “Woman” is not a universal construct and therefore no
individual or group can speak for all women.
Clinical Implications
• Feminist approaches, like all approaches that
center on the plight of oppressed groups share
much in common with conflict theories.
– Consciousness raising is a first step.
– Recognition of the effects of oppression on personal
identity and self-definition.
– Understanding that personal and social change are
coterminous.
– Movement toward personal liberation and then social
change.

• The object of intervention is
empowerment.
– Empowerment is increasing a person’s power
so that she can take action to improve her
own situation and gain Clinical Implications
control of her own life.
– Raising awareness, validation of feelings, self
disclosure, and building cohesive community
are all powerful tools to this end.

One of the wealthiest women in the world
Feminist Agenda: Intimate Violence
• Societal Level (Macro):
– Pass laws proscribing violence against
women which mandate consequences
including both punishment and intervention for
batterers.
– Give women access to all the privileges and
resources to which men have access.

• Community Level (meso)
– Develop a coordinated community response
to intimate violence that includes all segments
of the community.
– Provide shelters and services for women who
are victims of intimate violence and their
children so that they can experience safety,
security, and hope.

• Provide effective interventions to batterers
to assist them in changing their
misogynistic attitudes and developing
more egalitarian ones.
• Provide effective interventions for victims
of intimate violence which will empower
them to leave abuse relationships.

Judy Chu, 1st Chinese American woman elected to Congress