Women and Gender Studies: Identify the key developments in third wave feminism with specific focus on sex work, agency, the body, and Butler’s contributions to contemporary discussions on gender performativity.

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Women and Gender Studies

  1. Select TWO (2) of the following four (4) questions to answer.
  2. Each answer should be between 900—1000 words of text (excluding in text citations). Use APA citing.
  3. Create one reference page per answer.
  4. The reference page should follow each question.

Question A:

Drawing upon Razack (2009), Jiwani (1999), Jiwani and Young (2006), and Wise Harris(1991).

Explain the key insights and developments of feminist discourses in Women’s and Gender
studies around gender based violence. Why are these insights so important to the discipline?

Question B:

Drawing upon Butler (1999), Karaian and Mitchell (2010), van der Meulen, Durisin, Love,
(2013), and Koken (2010).

Identify the key developments in third wave feminism with specific focus on sex work, agency, the body, and Butler’s contributions to contemporary discussions on gender performativity.

Question C:

Why it important and necessary for feminist discourses in Women’s and Gender Studies to think critically about the concept of a ‘universalized’ experience of womanhood or oppression?

Draw upon hooks, (1984), Mohanty (2002), hooks (1984), and McKenzie (2018), and Hill Collins

(2000) to answer this question.

Question D:

Why is the concept of intersectionality so important for discourses in Women’s and Gender Studies? How has the concept of intersectionality impacted feminist discourses in Women’s
and Gender Studies?

For this answer, draw upon Truth (2018), Cho, Crenshaw, and McCall (2013),Crenshaw’s Ted Talk (2016), and Razack (2009).