WMS 50 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Eurocentrism, Intersectionality, Genderqueer
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Community of experts must maintain their credibility (cid:873)as defined by the larger group(cid:874: because experts are so few, it is hard for them to represent the whole community, )hat are the requirements of the eurocentric masculinist institutions? i. 754(cid:841: contours of black feminist thought, anecdotal evidence, emphasis on community, gender roles in family, element of responsibility to participate, ethic of caring - opposite of objectivity i. Personal state in what you"re saying and what"s happening. Ideas of intersectionality f: dimension 1: relationship between knowledge and wisdom, )isdom is practical ii. You admit that you said it, and in the future, you take responsibility for what you said. Ethic of caring about the things you"re saying. More subjective; can"t separate themselves to how they view things because they have personal ties to the subject. If there are more ways of knowing, we can ask different questions and see more knowledge. Has no country, but belongs to every country.
