KINE 1000 Lecture Notes - Audre Lorde, Voyeurism, Sandra Harding

• School: York University
• Department: Kinesiology & Health Science
• Course: KINE 1000
• Professor: Hernan Humana

Document Summary

Towards a new vision: people typically have are unable to see how our thoughts and actions uphold someone else"s subordination, ex. White feminist talk about being oppressed, but fail to see how their white skin benefits them. I"m more oppressed than you: competes people for attention, resource and theoretical supremacy. Race class and gender as categories of analysis are essential in helping us understand the structural bases of domination and subordination: we also need to change our behaviour. We stereotype and objectify those different than ourselves. How can we reconceptualise race, class and gender as categories of analysis: we need to shift discourse away from additive analyses of oppression, either/or, dichotomous thinking. Person, things and ideas are conceptualised in terms of opposites: black/white, male/female, thought/feeling (not two different/interconnect ways) People continue to try and classify each other in either/or categories.