Feminism

Question 1

Waves of feminism

2 steps ?

Allowed?

Answer 1

1. Study of women without challenging the dominant narratives
2. Study of gender- self reflective, focus on identities and polyvocality
3. Allowed the emergence of theoretical understandings of the connections between race, class, gender, sexual orientation, and power

Question 2

Feminist anthropology

Answer 2

Puts an emphasis on critical assessment of traditional, entrenched, and normative assumptions that pervade many aspects of academic research

Motivated by a belief that structures of power have obscured the social experiences of many

Strives to contend with inequalities driven by social difference, gender representing just one variable in settings

Question 3

Hijra

Answer 3

Are understood as a special group of people born with missing or ambiguous genitals de linked from desire