WGST 2801 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Multiperspectivity, Wgst, Intersectionality

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Women's and Gender Studies
• Course: WGST 2801
• Professor: Amrita Hari

Document Summary

1990s accommodate a variety of identity positions. Emphasized the importance of cultural and attitudinal change (pop culture) Critics : a lack of political leverage, class-related problems. Women and men in the same racial or ethnic group to band together to rebel against inequalities. Sirma bilge (2010) veiled woman controversy: feminist portray as symbols of submission or resistance, draws on colonial representations of eastern/oriental women, continuation of sex wars false consciousness argument. Equality is based on complementarity between genders as well as between human beings and nature. Racism, sexism, and economic and sexual exploitation can and should be complementary and simultaneous struggles. Sexual violence in indigenous communities is inextricably tied to processes of genocide and colonization. Rejecti(cid:374)g (cid:862)fe(cid:373)i(cid:374)is(cid:373)(cid:863) : unrelenting exploitative research on indigenous peoples, transcends western individualization. E. g. no-dapl resistance to the dakota access pipeline. Linked to broader processes of settler-colonialism in canada.