SOC367H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: White Supremacy, Marxist Feminism, Feminist Theory
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Ruth frankenberg: growing up white: feminism, racism and the social geography of childhood. Being white" is a privilege that people enjoy but no acknowledged, a reality live in but unknown. Challenging racism is not a project that can take place only on the level of ideas but which calls for major changes in the social, economic and legislative orders. Essay about how the ways racism shapes white women"s lives, impact of race privilege on white women"s experience and consciousness. Intersectionality: both men"s and women"s lives are shaped by their gender, heterosexual and lesbian women"s experiences in the world are marked by their sexuality, white people and people of colour live racially structured lives. Any system of differentiation shapes those upon whom it bestows privilege as well as those it oppresses. Essay traces the early lives of five white us women to help concretize these ideas and contextualize some of the authors questions about feminist theory and antiracist feminist politics.
