Unit 1
An approach emphasizing the intersectionality of race, gender, and class on a global scale, focusing on the impacts of colonialism and imperialism while advocating for women's rights globally.
What is Transnational Feminism?
Edward Said coined this term.
What is Orientalism?
Rosie the Seamstress resembles this WWII Icon
What/Who is Rosie the Riveter?
Lila Abu-Lughod critiques how the West misconstrued and understands this clothing item as a misunderstood symbol of Muslim women's oppression.
What is the Veil? or What is the Burqa?
In Jamaica Kincaid A Small Place, this place has a sign that says "this building was damaged in the Earthquake of 1974, repairs are pending"?
What is the library of Antigua?
This term that describes the phenomenon in which women (and children) are disproportionately represented among the world's poor -- in otherwise experience higher rates of poverty than men which impact their livelihood.
What is the feminization of poverty?
This type of feminism represents a model of a feminist empowerment via at-home mask making in the face of the COVID-19 Crisis that is distinctly white and middle class.
What is Quarantine Feminism?
This feminist approach critiques the portrayal of women as victims - and emphasizes women resistance, their active agency, and contributions to broader liberal struggle
This term is used to refer to the rapid and accelerating integration of many local and national economies into a single global market, regulated by the World Trade Organization (WTO) and to the political and cultural corollaries of this process...
What is Globalization?
Prisons, Refugee Camps, and Detention Centers have these things in common (Name at least three things)
Restricted Mobility, People do not have access to full citizenship, limited means of income - dependent on state and/or international funding
How does Securitization create debilitating conditions?
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