WGST 1808 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw, Crying Girl, Wgst

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Women's and Gender Studies
• Course: WGST 1808
• Professor: Debra Graham

Document Summary

Want your point of view linked to larger issues: introduction to intersectionality. Analyzes identity information and social positions as relation, an makes viable the multiple positioning that constitutes everyday life and the power relations that are central to it. More than one category should be analyzed. Analysis of the individual is integrated with system analysis. A dynamic interaction between individual and institutional factors. Told gender, then asked why is he crying. First thing people ask about a baby is it a girl or a boy? . Gendered stories about biology: ask mom where babies come from, egg is made out as passive, sperm given action and personality. People of colour did include race because they experience oppression from it. Shit white girls say to black girls video: term coined in 1989 by american critical legal race scholar kimberle crenshaw. How those two labels affect a person. It is not an additive but the oppressions come together.