WGS 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Audre Lorde, Alice Walker, Intersectionality
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Alice walker coined term womanism in 1983. Describe the intersectional experience of black women and limits of feminism. Kimberle crenshaw positions herself as a black feminist. Goal to construct and empower a political sensibility that opposes misogyny and racism simultaneously . Make black women focal point of analysis. Argues for applicability to other multiply- marginalized groups. Audre lorde: black feminist, poems and speeches. There is no such thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives . Such as women"s liberation movement and black freedom movement in 1960s and 1970s. Difference, or dissimilarity, doesn"t necessarily suggest hierarchy. Buffett has different food, but they"re all good. Lorde argues that a profit-driven economy must rank differences among individuals and groups. In order to establish their value in a marketplace that thrives on cheap labor. Assigns worth and value based on proximity to a market ideal. Rooted in fear of difference: ignore, copy or destroy.