FEM 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Anita Sarkeesian, Gender Studies, Julia Serano

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Women's Studies
• Course: FEM 1100
• Professor: Corrie Scott

Document Summary

Oppression is a whole system of forces or barriers, not just a single force or barrier. Lecture 2: example: the metaphor of the birdcage: oppressed people go through barriers in which there are no ways of getting out. 4 levels of racism: individual racism. Internalized: biases that we have within ourselves interpersonalized: act out racism on each other: extjakljs. Institutionalized: racism found in one institution such as religion or law. Racist policies in schools, workplaces etc. which routinely produce unjust outcomes for people of colour. Structuralized: the collection of all institution being racist; broader. It distorts racism because it encourages us to see individual stories of people transcending racism then it does not exist, but that is not true. We have to be aware of the more broader patterns playing out across society. Power: power can be both constraining and productive, in the past theorists thought about power as being wielded by a ruling class.