GSFS 300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: White Privilege, Neocolonialism, Identity Politics

• School: McGill University
• Department: Gender, Sexuality, Feminist, and Social Justice Studies
• Course: GSFS 300
• Professor: Mary Bunch

Document Summary

We see this turn toward diff. re ecting in several trends in feminist theory: feminist standpoint epistemology, postmodernism, intersectionality, global / transnational feminism. Civil rights movement: during the civil rights movement. Black women caught in double bind: white middle class feminist movements of time excl. them b/c of racism, black rights movement marginalized them w/ sexism, black women sometimes felt like they were forced to choose their allegiance. To women , as utd. gr. or black men. When addressed sexism, in black contexts, or racism in feminist contexts, they were accused of being divisive. !1: see coalition work as a way of dealing with interlocking oppressions, saw radical political work, embodied in identity politics, as being derived from one"s own identity, not addressing the oppression of others. Black feminist through in the matrix of domination (1990: patricia hill - collins.