SOCIOL 4UU3 Lecture 4: Intersectional framework
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Call to action - sociology can"t talk about nation states and nationalism separate from gender. Use transnational feminist perspective - feminist is for everyone . Article critiques how works on nation states use a gendered lens that is white, middle class heterosexyal frame work. Fail to connect policy with workers right, with gendered violence. Acknowledge the economic and worker inequality they are coming from. Transnational feminist - how our past impacted the present - colonialism impact in shaping modern day relations. How citizenship and national identity have on women"s experiences on access to safety, healthcare, mobilicity, bringing family over. People lose their lose or paid undcently in unsafe work conditions (factories) There is no such thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live sing-issue lives (audre lorde) The simultaneously experience of categorical, hieratical classifications, hierarchy inducing but not limited to race, class, gender, sexuality nationality, ability. Our experience are a product of our unique positioning.