We will ask two central questions throughout this course: 1. What difference does gender make? 2. For which women does it make a difference? Which women?
Estelle FreedmanFeminism is a belief that although women and men are inherently of equal worth, most societies privilege men as a group. As a result, social movements are necessary to achieve political equality between women and men, with the understanding that gender always intersects with other social hierarchies.
Estelle Freedman