POLSCI 3V03 Lecture Notes - Legal Clinic, Susan Moller Okin, Proquest
10 Sep 2014
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Week 12; intersectionalities: gender, race, class slide #9. Intersectionality: film: clarence thomas and anita hill: public hearing, private pain , difference v. diversity feminism, post-colonial feminism, tensions between gender and culture: is multiculturalism bad for women, current issues and problems. This problem is especially complex for comparative political research (weldon, 2006, 237 this article is. Anita hill and clarence thomas: us context: intersection of gender, race and class, black women in us may experience multiple structures of disadvantage. Racism from men and women among the ethnic majority. Poverty and class disadvantage: what sources of oppression do they choose to contest, depends on the context, and their individual location among various structures of oppression and disadvantage. Urban black poor": we are all implicated in these 3 structures, but our individual location in them varies; also certain issues will arise that emphasize the pertinence of one structure over others in our lives.
