PHIL 242 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Internalized Oppression, Intersectionality, Social Inequality
15 Sep 2016
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Response to women left out/ incl. in damaging ways: excluding women"s acct. of world. Want/demand: r > move/act in accord w/ own will. Insist to give own accts. of mvmts/actions: distrust of male monopoly over accts. of mvmt/actions. Big ideas: difference among women, how they are silenced. It matters who says, and what is said about our experiences: integral to leading life v. being led through it, silencing = oppression, invitation to silence = exclusive, language. Stories lost in translation: some things don"t translate similarly/accurately from original language/context. Something to think about when translating narratives/accounts, or even just presenting one"s accounts. Notes: our experiences = in uenced by what is said about us. Internalized oppression: women experience life via concepts (impoverished/degrading) cr. by others. Monday, september 12, 2016: male accts. of women lives = false, demand stem = complaint. Missing intersectionality: some women are better head v. other. +likely to focus on narr. by white/ middle-class/ heterosexual/christian women.
