FEM 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Marilyn Waring, Intersectionality, Migrant Domestic Workers

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

Document Summary

Focuses on the way racial categories shift and change depending on social, economic, political pressure. Racial meanings attached to what it means to be mexican has changed. Defines racial fabrication as the process by which racial meanings arise. Fabrication: suggests possible intention to deceive, also emphasizes human element and evokes plastic and inconsistent character of race. Race"s an idea we ascribe to biology. Invisible advantages: people with privilege do not notice or think through their own privilege. Men sometimes willing to talk about how disadvantaged women were but did not want to talk about their unearned privilege. Invisible pack that people with privilege wear and don"t notice. Holds all sorts of tools that they cash in but are unaware they have: annalise mcintosh"s list of unearned privileges from an intersectional perspective. 1: class, if you don"t have the money this isn"t necessarily possible. Video: why does privilege make people so angry? https://youtu. be/qeypvv3erhy.