Full Paper description: analyze your chosen theme in relation to the broader social, historical, and economic conditions of feminism today, i.e. examining and applying its major concepts. Keep in mind the broad concepts that we have been addressing across the readings including: embodiment/race/ability, space/location, institutions/sentiment, ideas/material reality, power/love etc.
The Project of Universal Womanhood:
The old search for Universal position, a universal experience from which to build a feminist politics and ethics has largely fallen out of fashion. Discuss the promises and pit pop pit falls of a Universalist approach to gender oppression. Given the money criticisms and feminism’s championing of difference, can a universal approach still be desirable?
write an argumentative paper that argues against the concept of a Universalist approach to gender oppression. this paper is formal. It’s requires a MINIMUM of 6 secondary sources.
Secondary sources can be
recent scholarly books and articles found in online journals, newspapers and magazines, and articles and essays, texts from reliable online sources.
of the following, at least one of the sources MUST be used:
Chapter 1 of “the invention of women”:
visualizing the body western theories and African subjects by Oyewumi Oyeronke
“The second sex” by Simone de Beauvoir
“bargaining with patriarchy” by Deniz Kandiyoti
“about men” preface with the book “the will to change: men masculinity and love” by Bell Hooks
CITATIONS AND BIBLIOGRAPHY IN CHICAGO PLZ. Thank you!!