Theory
___ _____ had its primary goal explaining to women and men how sexist thinking worked and how we could challeng and change it.
What is feminist theory
Feminst theory was available by ____ _ _____ ,
__________, and __________.
word of mouth
newsletters and pamphlets
This is the title of bell hooks first book.
Ain't I a woman: Black Women and Feminism
feminist movement gained momentum when...
it entered the academy
Why were Women’s studies programs created in colleges and universities?
to provide institutional legitimaion for academic focus on work by women.
Feminist theory was shared in _________?
groups or conciousness raising groups
________ _________ is where women wrote, printed and controlled production on all levels including marketing.
women's publishing
Her dissertation centered on the work of this woman writer.
Toni Morrison
the production of feminist thinking and theory was ___________ ______ in that women were constantly in dialogue about ideas, testing and reshaping our paradigms.
collaborative work
By the late '80s most feminist scholarship reflected an awareness of ________ and _______ differences.
race and class
Early groups included an analysis of _______, and stratgies for _________ ____________.
Sexisim
challegning partriarchy
The citizens of this nation cannot know the _____ __________ ________ ___________ has
made to all our lives if we do not highlight these gains.
positive contributions feminist movement
According to hook, who is the most canonized black women writer in American Literature?
Zora Neale Hurston
Suddenly the feminist thinking that had emerged directly from theory and practice received less attention than theory that was written solely for an _______ _________
academic audience
We need a
_____ ______ _________ that would help us
spread feminist thinking globally
feminist television network
New models for social interaction were needed because we had been socailized by_________ and ________ to accept ________ ____________.
parents and society
sexist thinking
Name one of the most powerful and successful interventions of contemporary feminism.
Producing a body of feminist literature coupled with the recovery of women's history
She came to ______ ________ by challenging male domination in her patriarchal household.
feminist thinking
Literature that helps inform masses of people, that helps individuals understand feminist thinking and feminist politics, needs to be ________ _______ __________.
written in a range of styles and formats
accessible to youth culture
community based
By failing to create a mass-based educational movement to teach everyone about feminism we allow mainstream patriarchal mass media to remain the primary place where folks learn about feminism, and most of what they learn is __________
negative
Everything we do in life is rooted in
Theory
In all spheres of literary writing and academic scholarship, works by women had recieved little or no attention due to ________ _________
gender discrimination
her birth name and where her institute is located
Gloria Watkins
Berea College, Appalachia
________ _________ is one of the most
crucial sites for feminist education for critical consciousness precisely because beliefs and identities are still being formed.
Children's literature
Women scholars who were truly committed to feminist movement and _____ ______were eager to produce theory that
would address the realities of ______ _______.
female solidarity
most women