Gender Studies
Fem-8
Ms. Lindsay
Aim: What did feminists of color say about
the women’s rights movement?
Do Now (ON YOUR OWN): Look at the
papers of different women around the
room. Sit at the table of the woman
whose writing you want to read the most.
HW Due Today: Seminar sheet
Kimberlé Crenshaw
• Topics of Interest: black feminist
legal theory, racism, law
• Crenshaw has also served as a member of the
National Science Foundation's Committee to
Research Violence Against Women and has
assisted the legal team representing Anita Hill.
Audre Lorde
• About Her: Caribbean-American writer, poet,
radical feminist, womanist, lesbian, and civil
rights activist
Cherrie Moraga
• About Her: Chicana writer, feminist activist,
poet, essayist, and playwright
• Topics of Interest: ways in which gender,
sexuality and race intersect in the lives of
women of color
Gloria Anzaldúa
• About Her: wrote about her life
growing up on the Mexican-Texas
border and incorporated her lifelong feelings
of social and cultural marginalization into her
work.
• Topics of Interest: Chicana cultural theory,
feminist theory, and queer theory, “linguistic
terrorism”
Angela Davis
• About Her: American political
activist, scholar, and author; Davis
was on the FBI’s Most Wanted List & spent time
in prison for a crime for which she was later
found “not guilty”
• Topics of Interest: feminism, African-American
studies, critical theory, Marxism, popular music,
social consciousness, and the philosophy and
history of punishment and prisons
Patricia Hill Collins
• Topics of Interest: issues involving feminism
and gender within the African-American
community
Chandra Mohanty
• About Her: Indian-American, Chair of the
Women’s Studies Department at Syracuse
University
• Topics of Interest: postcolonial and
transnational feminisms
Collaborative Annotating
• 1. Read text independently. Annotate or text
code as you read.
• 2. Write a comment or question on your
paper.
How do we annotate/text code?
As a group…
• Round 1: Each person in the group will take a
different color marker and write ONE
annotation that you wrote on your paper IN
SILENCE!
• Round 2: Respond to another person's
comment or question.
MODEL
It’s not okay to
assume people
wearing veils
are not free
I agree – it can be a choice
• Universal images of “the third world woman” (the
veiled woman…virgin, etc.) images constructed from
adding the “third world difference” to “sexual
difference,” are [based] upon…assumptions about
Western women as [non-religious], liberated, and
having control over their own lives…It is time to
move beyond the [saying] They cannot represent
themselves; they must be represented.
When you are finished annotating…
• Decide (with your group) on the MAIN IDEA.
• Write the MAIN IDEA on your poster.