GSFS 300 Lecture 9: GSFS300L9

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

Document Summary

The problem of speaking for others : bell hooks. Linda alcoff: critique about speaking for others comes from 2 sources: 1: the view that the speaker"s social location is epistemically signi cant. 2: structured by relations of power, speaking for others can be discursively dangerous. So what should privileged speakers do: the solutions differ by situation - none of these is the ultimate solution, but they are useful at times. Only speak for groups of which i am a member . Stay silent v. political responsibility to speak out against oppression. When speaking for others one should uncritically follow their lead. Move over and get out of the way. Feminists tend to engage in 3 responses to the problematics of. Speaking for": reductionism, retreat, speaking to / speaking with: She prioritizes the third response as the most productive and ethical.