WGS160Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Audre Lorde, Cynthia Enloe, Angela Davis
11 Oct 2018
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Intersectionality: critical thinking (feminist curiosity, feminist surprise, history, difference: beyond binaries, beyond distorted relationships, connection (proximities, intimacies, politics. "bei(cid:374)g cu(cid:396)ious takes e(cid:374)e(cid:396)gy . so (cid:373)a(cid:374)y powe(cid:396) st(cid:396)uctu(cid:396)es - inside households, within institutions, in societies, in international affairs are dependent on our continuing lack of curiosity. "tradition," "always,": each has served as a cultural pillar to prop up familial, community, national and international power structures, imbuing them with legitimacy, with timelessness, with inevitability. Intersectional analysis: acknowledges that every person exists in the framework of (cid:373)ultiple ide(cid:374)tities , highlights the ways in which there is simultaneous interaction of discrimination that arise from these (cid:373)ultiple ide(cid:374)tities (cid:894)ve(cid:396)(cid:373)a, (cid:1006)00(cid:1007)(cid:895) Feminist politics (feminist"s double mandate: diagnostic, transformative. "how and why these social processes have come about and continue to operate is the subject of feminist theories. What to do about them is the aim of the feminist politics. " (judith lorber, gender.
