WGST 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Patricia Hill Collins, Seneca Falls Convention, The Feminine Mystique

• School: Texas A&M University
• Department: Women's &Gender Studies
• Course: WGST 200
• Professor: Tasha Dubriwny

Document Summary

Those who belong to a group with more power, solely by virtue of their identity, are part of the dominant group. You must live sin fronteras and be a crossroads to survive the borderlands. A term labeling people whose gender identity is congruent with their sex category assigned at birth. A term labeling people whose gender identity is not congruent with their sex category assigned at birth. Peggy mcintosh"s invisible weightless knapsack carries around white privilege which is the unearned advantage of being white. In the master"s tools will never dismantle the master"s house, . Audre lorde"s posits that this is power and can speak creativity. According to peggy mcintosh, privilege may confer power, [but] it does no confer moral strength. Segura and zavella"s borderlands theory offer ways to explore power and domination but also agency and resistance. This term refers to the multiple ties and interactions linking people and institutions across national borders.