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16 Cards in this Set
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intersectionality |
we can't understand gender independently of other social processes such as race, class, (dis)ability, homophobia, transphobia |
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intersectionality and gender |
gender affects people differently, depending on other social factors |
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standpoint theory |
group location on hierarchal power relations produces shared challenges for individuals in those groups. common challenges foster similar POV, leading to group knowledge or standpoint, which in turn affects political actions |
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standpoint theory simplified |
group standpoints are situated in unjust power relations, reflect those power relations, and help shape them |
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some groups matters |
race, gender and class may all be present in all social settings, but groups experience and 'see' them differently. white females vs. black females |
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oppression |
systematic discrimination and disadvantage experienced by people due to their membership in certain social groupse.g. race, gender, class |
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privelage |
unearned benefits given to people who belong to a specific social group granted to people b/c of certain aspects of their identity, incl. race, class, gender, sexual orientation, language, geographical location, ability and religion |
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privilege and oppression |
both are rooted in group membership both result from relationships between social groups that are unequal in power |
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Marx and class relationality |
class is always relational: one class benefits from another's disadvantage |
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Race and relationality |
whiteness as a group arises through its advantage relative to Blackness |
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group consciousness |
Marx saw shared membership in a class as giving rise to class consciousness |
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Appeal to 'sisterhood' |
solidarity among women across their differences helps develop shared consciousness among women of varying classes and races |
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Collins critique of the Family |
1. site of reproduction of gender inequality 2. overlooks differences within 'family' or group |
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Audre Lorde and Privilege |
Lorde questions why she was the only black woman invited to a feminism conference the organizing white women didn't realize their privilege, they ignored racism b/c it didn't personally affect them |
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Black Women and Standpoint Theory |
Not all women have the same individual experiences, however they have a common standpoint due to being in a shared group location in a hierarchy, which is due to a conglomeration of intersecting factors |
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Black Feminist thought and the Matrix of Domination |
Black Feminist thought that all systems of oppression, based on race, class or gender are all art of one overarching structure of domination, not one issue stacked upon the other. All issues are happening at the same time, they don't occur b/c one has certain attributes socially |
