WGST 2800 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Combahee River, Wgst, Intersectionality

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Women's and Gender Studies
• Course: WGST 2800
• Professor: Megan Rivers- Moore

Document Summary

Complex, culturally and historically specific social system that organizes and regulates interactions between men and women. Men/masculinity given more social value than women/femininity; helps determine access to capital and resources. Connected to other systems that organize social interactions race, sexuality, ability. Differences between men and women rather than among them. Emphasis on patriarchy, male domination, what women were imagined to share. We are actively committed to struggling against racial, sexual, heterosexual and class oppression . Goal = development of integrated analysis and practice based upon the fact that the major systems of oppression are interlocking. The synthesis of these oppressions creates the conditions of our lives . Central legislation governing first nations people in canada since 1876. Reserve system aimed to impose british/christian/agricultural patter profoundly racist. Also a gendered process divisions of labor. A force that some groups use to oppress others. An intangible entity that operates throughout a society and is organized in particular domains.