This text “Introduction to Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies” by “Miliann Kang, Donovan Lessard, and Laura Heston” uses Crucial feminist theories like discrimination and exclusion on the basis of sex and gender, objectification structural and economic inequality, power and gender roles and stereotypes to explain us the creation of social movement of feminism. The authors also show how personal experiences form by political, economic and cultural passions within the condition of history, institutions and culture, Conceptualizing Structures of Power impact and the limitation of feminism. And how Social Constructionism and Intersectionality that is social categorizations including race, class, and gender applying to a specific group for the creation of racist and discrimination in the systems established and approved by rich and educate white men
The authors explain us in his introduction several factors that contribute to the creation of feminism movement. The first one was the Theorizing Lived Experiences that unfold how inequality of race, class, gender, and sexuality leads to multiples issues to a levels of micro, meso, and macro/global of everyday towards woman that cause them to develop organizations and protestations in order to break those dilemmas with other women who were experiencing the same economic, cultural, and social problems.
Social Constructionism is a theory of knowledge that study how socially situated and knowledge work well-adjusted in the arrangement of inequalities where a group of people in power decide to produce racial, sexual and gender affair just to categorized and valuable another group of people over another. This study and theory help the feminist movements and theories to analyze the fructification and recreation of social constructionism and how to deal with it.
Conceptualizing Structures of Power consists to keep or restrict someone or something within certain limits by the establishment of rules, norms, and procedures based of his or her gender, race and sex but like a human body this theory can crash by changing and by fighting inequality for the collapse of that system even if it is going to take time for the skeleton to collapse and the feminism goals to accomplish.
The text makes realized that “man is a wolf to man” I thought everything like all those prejudices and discrimination were normal and they were nature work, I thought the color of my skin was supposed to be change in order to be happy and loved by others, I thought I was supposed to be inferior to white people, that white is right, I thought God makes me black because I am dammed or he hates me. I Even said several times when I was a kid I hate myself I wish I was white because of the injustice that was going on around me and still, but growing up I feel like the text said it is just Conceptualizing Structures of Power to make rich white men feel good about themselves band put themselves in the top of the pyramid and put down minorities. Now that knowledge, information and education are accessible to everybody I feel the system is starting to crack and a change is coming like Sam Cook said in his song “ A Change is Gonna Come”.
This is a really good entry, Lisa. You might want to mark it to revise and include it in your final portfolio. And I certainly hope Sam Cook was right – the cracks are showing and it’s what we do with them that matters.