2. FEMINIST ORIGINS OF WOMEN’S STUDIES
1970s (so called “second wave” of U.S. feminism)
Academic v. “in the streets”
3. TYPOGRAPHY OF FEMINIST THOUGHT
Liberal
Marxist/
Socialist
Women of
Color
Radical
Cultural
(maternalist)
French
Feminists
Psychoanalytic
Postmodern
Lesbian
Queer
4. DIFFERENTIAL CONSCIOUSNESS
“The differential model of oppositional consciousness depends upon
the ability to read the current situation of power and of self—
consciously choosing and adopting the ideological form best
suited to push against its configurations, a survival skill well
known to oppressed peoples. Differential consciousness requires
grace, flexibility, and strength…”
-Sandoval, “US Third World Feminism” (1991), anthologized
in Feminism & ‘Race’, p. 272
