CDNS 2000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Intersectionality, Finding Dawn, Sick Individuals

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Canadian Studies
• Course: CDNS 2000
• Professor: Mihaela Vieru

Document Summary

Identity markers/categories: each person at the intersection" of many identity categories. E. g. immigrant, woman, lesbian, christian, white/colour etc. The way you experience society and reality depends on the intersection of these identity markers: social location (role) as an oppressor and/or oppressed. Depends on what categories are brought forward socially. Identity fragmentation: identity categories assumed to exist separately, suspended in time and space. One or another, never together and at the same time: subject of the intersectionality critique. Cannot view someone just as parts of their identity need to simultaneously see how all identity markers intersect. Theoretical framework for articulating a non-fragmenting view of identity and how it works in social-cultural-economic-politic al contexts. Highlights 3 things: the multitude of identity markers/categories. Race, sex, class, gender, disability, religion etc: the relationship (intersection) between these different aspects of one"s social identity, their interaction(s) with systems/axes of oppression (power relations) Origin: generated mainly by women of colour in response to their marginalization in.