WGST 2800 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Patricia Hill Collins, Google Scholar, Wgst

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Critical analysis treatment of sources; wide range of opinions; scholarly materials. May have challenges looking for intersectionality try racism, discrimination, ableism . Use google scholar to fill in the gaps between disciplines. Race class gender vs. race and class and gender (gender or male or female) Intersectionality brings together two important branches of feminist thought. Each additional category of inequality makes an individual more vulnerable, marginalized, subordinate. False distinction b/w identities and circumstances as separate and discrete. E. g. start w/ gender add analysis of disability. Which is worse being a woman or being black? . Aims to deconstruct binary oppositions and universalisms of western philosophy and science: male/female, culture/nature, mind/body. Lecture 3 intersectionality as method, theory, practice: civilization/wildness, reason/emotion, public/private. Fixed categories are social fictions produce inequalities. Existence of all groups can be challenged and fractured. Categories may be unstable, but relations of domination exist and require analytic and political engagement. Particular categories might be more salient in different times/places.

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