- 1. Fear of FeminismWhy Young Women Get the Willies Lisa Marie
Hogelan (1994) Jennica Giesbrecht
2. Hogeland believes that the Reagan and Bush administrations
created a new reality for young women. During this time, many
changes were made, cutting back almost completely on funding and
support for social programs. Hogeland states that during the 12
years of the Reagan and Bush administration feminism was demonized,
created a political and social culture in which feminism is seen
primarily as rebellious and as a political risk. Twelve years of
the rhetoric of "special interests versus family values" have
created a climate in which passionate political commitments seem
crazy. 3. Fear of feminism, then, is not a fear of gender, but
rather a fear of politics. Fear of politics can be understood as a
fear of living in consequences, a fear of reprisals. 4. Homophobia
and DatingHogeland believes that women fear feminism because of the
constant need to confront homophobia and the potential that
feminism may limit potential partners. 5. Do you feel that women
are still afraid to be labelled as a lesbian? Or that this fear of
limiting the dating pool is as applicable? 6. Many young women in
the process of defining themselves have yet to decide about things
such as careers, community involvement, or political or public
opinions. Therefore, their romantic explorations and relationships
often become their basis for development.Intimate relationships
become the testing ground for identity, a reality that has
enormously damaging consequences for teenage girls in particular.
7. Feminism provides systematic analysis of oppression, which is
empowering rather than threatening. However, it requires the full
understanding that assault is a large possibility that all women
face.Young women who have not been victims of men's violence hate
being asked to identify with it; they see the threat to their
emergent sense of autonomy and freedom not in the fact of men's
violence 8. Identifying as a feminist requires that you acknowledge
inequality 9. The main point that Hogeland delivers is that
feminism has consequences. Feminism requires you to consider the
consequences to all of your actions, and the reasoning behind them.
It calls you to commit to something larger than yourself. She
believes these are things that women are afraid to do. Women fear
anger, and change, and challenge--who doesn't? Women fear taking a
public stand, entering public discourse, demandingand perhaps
getting attention. 10. Do you agree that women fear anger, and
change, and challenge? 11. Hogeland expresses the common belief
that in terms of feminism, the private is the public. The personal
issues that face women need to be addressed at a public and
political level. She believes this is very threatening to young
women who would prefer to be left alone. Women ignore feminist
issues by choosing to not be a feminist. It is far easier to rest
in silence, as if silence were neutrality, and as if neutrality
were safety. Neither wholly cynical nor wholly apathetic, women who
fear feminism fear living in consequences. 12. Fear of feminism is
also fear of complexity, fear of thinking, fear of ideas--we live,
after all, in a profoundly anti-intellectual culture. 13. Hogeland
says that feminism is not safe. It is difficult work that goes
against current culture and more often than not is met with
resistance. She is careful to include that there are many positive
aspects to feminism: it is gratifying and empowering. It (feminism)
offers--and requires--courage, intelligence, boldness, sensitivity,
relationality, complexity, a sense of purpose, and, lest we forget,
a sense of humor as well. Of course young women are afraid of
feminism--shouldn't they be? 14. Are you, or do you believe women
should be, afraid of feminism? Does feminism require complex
thinking? 15. Welcome to the Border Augusta Dwyers Michael Buck and
Jordan Swait 16. The word Maquiladora comes from the share of grain
a miller would keep in payment for milling grain during colonial
times in Mexico, and refers to the idea of a single step in a
larger process going on elsewhere 17. Mexicos Trade Secretariat
defines a maquiladora as any plant where the machinery and raw
materials and temporarily imported only to assembled and shipped
back out again. 18. Collectively these plants are part of an
industrial process known as globalization, whereby manufacturing
has been broken down into a thousand tiny steps, each worker at
times spending no more than a few minutes on each part of the
production process , and those workers are spread all across the
world. 19. Colonial Roma is typical of living conditions of
maquiladora workers and the low wages that characterize the
industry. The wages are a fraction of what Canada and US make which
is the bottom line advantage of setting up maquiladora on the
Mexican border. 20. The average wage for maquiladora throughout
Mexico barely exceeds 1 dollar an hour yet the price of things in
Mexico are higher and pushes money from the Mexican economy over
into the US. According to the chamber of commerce in El Paso retail
sales from Mexican shoppers now add 1 Billion, with smaller
American cities gaining in the 10s of millions. 21. In 1982 when
the Mexican currency was devalued a larger number of shops in
America went out of business as Mexican shoppers found the prices
too high. 22. One woman maquiladora worker in Tijuana put it when
asked about coping with such low wages "Well, you don't really. It
barely gives you enough for food. I just say thank God that even
though they're secondhand from the States, you can still buy
clothes" in regards to American second hand clothing stores selling
by the pound rather than dollar all along the border. 23. A
consequence to the maquiladora popularity is the emergence of their
under developed suburb. Few homes have running water, sanitary
drainage, or electricity. The winter is freezing and the summer
boiling. Mothers who work often have to leave their children alone
which often leads to a future of drug use and gang violence. 24.
Conditions are dreadful and municipal authorities refuse to help
because the foreign companies pay no local taxes, they have no
money to provide the people services. 25. Mexican law absolves
foreign companies from legal suits for work related accidents, this
relieves corporations from hefty payments that they would be liable
for in the US or Canada. 26. Unfair Labour Practices: -firing
workers for trying to organize -firing those with enough seniority
to earn a severance package-sexual harassment-hiring minors-closing
and leaving town with paying wage or severance 27. According to the
country's natural institute of geography and statistic: 83 percent
of maquiladora are spread along Mexico 2000 mile long border,
employing almost 86 percent of the total workforce 28. 68 according
to the American chamber of commerce are wholly owned by US firms,
with another 25 percent coming form Mexican entrepreneurs, most
whom have exclusive contracts to supply Americans. 29. Are you
willing to pay more for goods that are made in Canada? 30. When
shopping for goods do you ever check where they are made or how
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