FEM 2110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Ableism, Intersectionality, Disability Studies

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Women's Studies
• Course: FEM 2110
• Professor: Kathryn Trevenen

Document Summary

The intersection of multiple systems of oppression create a different experience they influenced and alter each others. That is, we come to know and perform ourselves in ways that reproduce social hierarchies . Analytical tools that consist of looking at how systems of oppression interlock differ in emphasis from those that stress inter-sectionality. Interlocking systems need one another, and in tracing the complex ways in which they help to secure one another, we learn how women are produced into positions that exist symbiotically but hierarchically. We begin to understand, for example, how domestic workers and professional women are produced so that neither exists without the other. The race to innocence", a belief that we are uninvolved in subordinating others. More to the point, we fail to realize that we cannot undo our own marginality without simultaneously undoing all the systems of oppression.