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  Week 1 and 2: Does Feminism Come in Waves?

  Thu, Aug 22 
  Session 1: Introduction 

  Tue, Aug 27
  Session 2: Intersectionality and Marxist Feminism
  Nicholson, Linda “Feminism in "Waves": Useful Metaphor or Not?”
  
  Thu, Aug 29
  Session 3: Margaret Benston, “Political Economy of Women’s Liberation”
  The Combahee River Collective Statement  (1977) read only the statement itself, up to p.11 and the info about Black Lives Matter
  
  Tue, Sept 3rd
  Session 4: Field trip to the MLK Library. Watch the video with Kimberle Crenshaw introducing intersectionality.
  Read about the history of black feminism in DC in preparation (explore the three tabs at the top):

  • The Pre-Emancipation Era
  • The Post-Emancipation Era
  • The Civil Rights & Black Power Era
  
  We are meeting in the classroom at 12.45 pm sharp and taking the metro to the library together. Please don't be late!